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Alkanet

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Historic

The herb Alkanna tinctoria, also known as Dyer's Bugloss, boiled in vinegar to extract a red food colouring used from Medieval times until well into the 19th Century.


Alkanet or dyers' bugloss (Alkanna tinctoria)
Image: Jean Tosti


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