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Insects in typical American Food

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How many insect heads can be in 100mg of fig paste?

13

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Fruit juice can contain how many maggots per 250 milliliters

one

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How many pounds of flies, maggots and other bugs does a typical person eat in a year, without knowing it?

one to two pounds

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Natural Red No. 4, which is used to dye many foods and drinks comes from what?

crushed insects

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Candy glaze, resin glaze, natural food glaze, confectioner's glaze, confectioner's resin, Lac resin, Lacca, or gum lac. These are ingredients used in jelly beans, chocolate and other sweets. How are they obtained from the Lac bug?

They come from secretions of the Lac bug's glands that are scraped off of plants.

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If you've ever eaten a fig newton, what kind of bug have you likely also eaten?

The fig wasp

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How many bug fragments are usually found in 125 grams of chocolate?

60-74

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What kind of insect of bits are most common in chocolate?

cockroach

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Up to what percentage of bean with bugs in them are often in coffee?

10%

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A bottle of packaged juice may contain how many fly eggs in 250ml?

five

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How many insect fragments may be in every 100 grams of peanut butter?

30

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How many pieces of insects does a person usually ingest (eat) a year)

140,000

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What is the abbreviation for the government group that oversees how many bug pieces can be in our food?

FDA (Food and Drug Administration)

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The 16-ounce jar of peanut butter in your pantry can contain up to how many insect parts before it is said to be contaminated?

136

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The FDA legally allows up to how many insect fragments per 225 grams of pasta before they ban the product from grocery store shelves?

225 - That’s around one bug bit for each gram of pasta.

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Wheat can contain up to how many insect parts per 50 grams (about ¼ cup)?

75

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