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My husband found the following info posted on the following website:
http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Entomology/ythfacts/bugfood/bugfood2.htm
Are Bugs A Part of Your Diet?
Apple butter=5 insects per 100g
Berries= 4 larvae per 500g OR 10 whole insects per 500g
Ground paprika= 75 insect fragments per 25g
Chocolate= 80 microscopic insect fragments per 100g
Canned sweet corn= 2 3mm-length larvae, cast skins or fragments
Cornmeal= 1 insect per 50g
Canned mushrooms= 20 maggots per 100g
Peanut butter= 60 fragments per 100g (136 per lb)
Tomato paste, pizza, and other sauces= 30 eggs per 100g OR 2 maggots per 100g
Wheat flour= 75 insect fragmnets per 50g
Source: The Food Defect Action Levels: Current Levels for Natural or Unavoidable Defects for Human Use that Present No Health Hazard. Department of Health & Human Services 1989.
Does this bother you?
2 comments:
I've heard something like that before, that Americans eat so many pounds of bugs every year. Never really bothered me, but some of those things listed, like maggots in the canned mushrooms, are really, really gross.
And yeah, I doubt I'll ever look at a can of mushrooms the same again (not that I buy canned mushrooms, but still).
I'm in denial about the tomato paste one though...
Yeeeeeeuck!
I figure, if we've been eating this stuff our whole lives and we're still fine, it must not be too bad!
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