21. This insect is in the same Superfamily as the insect from which cochineal is obtained. 22. This has nothing to do with adding colors such as cochineal to eggs in cooking. 23. Red colour is mostly from madder, but lac and cochineal reds have been found. 24. The cochineal disperses in the first nymph stage, called the " crawler " stage. 25. Cochineal is used as a fabric and cosmetics dye and as a natural food colouring.26. Cochineal is one of the few water-soluble colourants to resist degradation with time.27. Some hemipterans are used to produce dyestuffs such as carmine ( also called cochineal ). 28. She had been sailing from Veracruz to Cadiz with a cargo of cochineal and sugar. 29. Maria Luisa crushes the cochineal on her " metate, " making a fine red powder. 30. "They can't use cochineal either because it contains the insects'blood.
