If you see an ingredients list that includes carmine, cochineal extract or natural red 4, the product contains crushed up bugs.
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For clean fruit, fill a bowl with water (or, for bigger batches, use a clean sink), add 1 cup of vinegar, and stir. Add fruit and leave to soak for 10 minutes. The water will be dirty and the fruit will be sparkly clean with no wax or dirty film.
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The average person eats almost 1500 pounds of food a year.
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A type of strawberry that almost became extinct is now being sold in Europe. It tastes like pineapple so they call it pineberry.
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There are so many kinds of apples that if you ate a new one everyday, it would take over 20 years to try them all.
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Pineapples are not a single fruit, but a group of berries that have fused together.
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