Feb 24, 2024, 07:59 PM IST

Common vegetarian foods that secretly contain insects

Jaisal Kaur

Here are a few foods that comprise a good amount of insect.

Chocolate: Chocolate may secretly contain around 70 odd bug bits.

Coffee beans: It contains about 120 bug bits in a single cup.

Fruit juices: Packaged juices may contain 5 fly eggs in every 250 ml.

Peanut butter: Peanut butter may contain 30 insect fragments per 100 grams. 

Pasta: The FDA permits up to 225 insect fragments per 225 grams of pasta.

Raisins: Just one cup of raisins can have up to 35 fruit fly eggs and ten whole insects.

Mushrooms: A 3.5-ounce can of mushrooms contains 19 maggots and 74 mites.

Canned tomatoes: A  can of tomatoes contains 8 fly eggs or one maggot.

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