# What's the pink . . .

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-pink/4998>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 24, 1999, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-pink/4998 "1999-11-24T17:08:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 29, 1999, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-pink/4998/21 "1999-11-29T02:52:00Z")

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I believe it was Ringo  
😉  
you knew I was gonna say that!

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**Author:** ![NanoByte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecc23a/32.png) [@NanoByte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NanoByte)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 1999, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-pink/4998/22 "1999-11-29T03:00:00Z")

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This page lists both a coloring derived from beetle eggs, carmine, and a coloring used in maraschino cherries. . .but not in association. It say carmine (red) comes from the cochineal beetle, but that Red Dye #4 is/was used in maraschino cherries (among other things perhaps?):  
[http://www.cspinet.org/reports/chemcuisine.htm](http://www.cspinet.org/reports/chemcuisine.htm)

Ray

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**Post date:** [November 30, 1999, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-pink/4998/23 "1999-11-30T00:06:00Z")

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Snapple’s pink lemonade claims to contain “extracts of grape skin and cherry (for color)” - no cabbage.

They also once had a very good and tart cherry lemonade, that actually had cherry flavor instead of just color, but I can’t find that any more.

ben

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