The surimi sticks [of] crabmeat, or is being sold as crab meat, is white fish that's being dyed with cochineal.

One gram of cochineal costs about 30 euros.

"Not at all," replied the great man, "it was a thing unavoidable, a necessary ingredient in the best of worlds; for if Columbus had not caught in an island in America this disease, which contaminates the source of generation, and frequently impedes propagation itself, and is evidently opposed to the great end of nature, we should have had neither chocolate nor cochineal.

Cochineal in sentence

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