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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Graig Graziosi

UNCOVERED: Maines famous red hot dogs have ditched the dyes and are being colored by crushed bugs instead - Caught on Camera

Maine has an iconic hot dog — a fiery red frank known as a "red snapper" — and the source its eye-catching color is soon to change.

W.A. Bean, the Bangor, Maine-based hot dog company that produces the snappers, is abandoning the Red Dye 3 food dye it used in its franks and replacing it with carmine extract.

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