I’ve always been someone who has a serious issue with bugs, especially the wormy kind. Today has unfortunately been a sad day for me because I recently learned that almost everything we eat contains bugs.
I was completely shocked after viewing the film “Inside the Microscopic World.” In the video, a man examines food samples under a microscope, chunks of bananas, hot dogs, and berries. He cannot unsee what he sees. Every food sample he uses has little bugs and worms crawling around in it. How many bugs are we actually eating, I was truly left wondering after that.
We consume up to 140,000 bugs annually, according to Insider and the insect control , Terro (maybe more, I don’t know your life). Nevertheless, regardless how disgusting that sounds, doing so is typical and safe.
According to Insider, mealworms, maggots, roaches, and beetles can be discovered in common foods, coffee beans, chocolate, and wheat flour, even if you can’t see them or taste them. For those of you who enjoy beer, hops are the worst culprit when it comes to bug additives. Around 25,000 traces of bugs can be found in only 100 grams of hops.
I was shocked by this, mostly because I had never given it much thought. However, while this may sound disgusting to me and perhaps you, especially if you live in the West, there are parts of the rest of the world where eating bugs is considered a mainstay. The FDA, often known as the “Food and Drug Administration,” is there to protect the rest of us by allowing a certain number of bugs to be consumed in the food and beverages that are sold to us.
There is a legal limit for each sort of food, but not for our health. Instead, these limitations exist primarily to make us feel better. And the theory goes that the less you see, the more probable it is that your dinner will satisfy you.
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