Feb 24, 2024, 07:59 PM IST
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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