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Insects in my Food?

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  • If a 3.5-ounce can of mushrooms contains how many maggots and 74 mites, and still be technically FDA-approved?
    19
  • A bottle of packaged juice may contain how many fly eggs in 250ml?
    five
  • 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.
  • If you've ever eaten a fig newton, what kind of bug have you likely also eaten?
    The fig wasp
  • The FDA allows up to how many insect fragments per 50 grams (or ¼ cup) of cinnamon?
    400
  • How many insect heads can be in 100mg of fig paste?
    13
  • Natural Red No. 4, which is used to dye many foods and drinks comes from what?
    crushed insects
  • Up to what percentage of bean with bugs in them are often in coffee?
    10%
  • How many pieces of insects does a person usually ingest (eat) a year)
    140,000
  • 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.
  • Wheat can contain up to how many insect parts per 50 grams (about ¼ cup)?
    75
  • How many bug fragments are usually found in 125 grams of chocolate?
    60-74
  • What is the abbreviation for the government group that oversees how many bug pieces can be in our food?
    FDA (Food and Drug Administration)
  • How many pounds of flies, maggots and other bugs does a typical person eat in a year, without knowing it?
    one to two pounds
  • Fruit juice can contain how many maggots per 250 milliliters
    one
  • What kind of insect of bits are most common in chocolate?
    cockroach
  • How many insect fragments may be in every 100 grams of peanut butter?
    30
  • 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
  • One cup of raisins can have up to 35 fruit fly eggs and how many whole insects, per FDA guidelines?
    ten
  • Up to how many bug parts can end up in 50 grams (or ¼ cup) of ground pepper and still be considered safe to eat?
    475