Possible Clues:

• Scarlet food dye
• Red food dye (from beetles)
• Scarlet dye — in a cloche (anag)
• Red food colouring
• 'Red' nation, ultimately lacking energy, invested in fossil fuel
• Food colouring company feature retails regularly
• Red or black stuff around piece of meat
• Mexican insect found in black rock enclosing ravine
• Red chicken existing without head
• Substance for colouring fowl and fish, it's said