{"id":26857,"date":"2026-06-17T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=26857"},"modified":"2026-06-01T13:31:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:31:04","slug":"an-update-on-carmine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/17\/an-update-on-carmine\/","title":{"rendered":"An Update on Carmine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_26858\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Cochineal-from-which-Carmine-is-derived-Photo-by-Roberto-Michel-Getty-Images.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26858\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26858\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Cochineal-from-which-Carmine-is-derived-Photo-by-Roberto-Michel-Getty-Images.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26858\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cochineal from which Carmine is derived Photo by Roberto Michel Getty Images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A <em>Vegan Journal<\/em> reader informed us that she felt a strawberry drink labeled vegan that she bought was actually not vegan due to the fact that in contains carmine. VRG\u2019s Research Director Jeanne Yacoubou, MS, looked into this concern and reports back here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2026issue2\/2026_issue2_update-carmine.php\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2026issue2\/2026_issue2_update-carmine.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To subscribe to Vegan Journal is the USA only, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/member\">www.vrg.org\/member<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Vegan Journal reader informed us that she felt a strawberry drink labeled vegan that she bought was actually not vegan due to the fact that in contains carmine. VRG\u2019s Research Director Jeanne Yacoubou, MS, looked into this concern and reports back here: https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2026issue2\/2026_issue2_update-carmine.php To subscribe to Vegan Journal is the USA only, visit www.vrg.org\/member<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26859,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26857\/revisions\/26859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}