in the freezer before bagging up and storing in the pantry.
Because if you don't you get the main parasite outbreak in your belly!
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Check out the accepted number of insect fragments that are allowed by the FDA in canned food. Canned tomatoes for instance.
Happy eating!
It is rare but it happens.
Toss the pasta and cook something else.
Similar things have happened here; although not a scientist or a student of food, processing, or packaging, I have the sneaking suspicion that, on the microscopic level, at least, there’s a lot of cr*p in our food we never see.
Cook it well.
And, yes, it’s a significant problem in these days of planned long-term storage in anticipation of future need.
Yes it happened to me twice in 40 years. Threw it out checked rest of cupboard then purchased a fresh box from different store. I always look before I cook and rotate by home stored products.
More seriously, I have never seen these bugs before. You should have used the coupons.
This is minor. If you think our food is pristine as sold, think again. Just look at FDA guidelines for foodstuffs and what adulterants are allowed. There is now way to have a completely bug-free, hair-free and pest-free food chain. Short of growing it yourself, the stuff will always be there. My mother was the best cook ever, but I always somehow managed to find a hair in my food—it was her hair. Still alive.......
You mean the bugs or throwing away coupons for free food?
No and no.
PROTEIN.
Yes, happened to me with a box of spaghetti while living overseas and shopping at a military base commissary.
Up`n here we`uns go berryin` about this time of yaer up on ye mountain, `n we jest pick them berries, them blackcaps n black rasberries, yummy, bugs n all n eatem bugs`n all, to make sure them berries `n bugs is ripe,whilst we is pickin`.
You`ll city slickers is scared of bugs in pastas?
Heck you ain`t lived until you`ve mouth `n swallowed a crunchy raw leafhopper.
Because if you don't you get the main parasite outbreak in your belly!
It is nearly impossible to produce foodstuffs that have no insect contaminates in them.
It is very hard, but you must learn to live with this icky fact.
I do not put flour or boxes of pasta in the cupboard without sealing them in plastic bags or boxes first.
I have never purchased grain items that already had weevils in them. But if they sit around the kitchen for a while, especially if the package is opened, they will attract weevils. This is more of a problem in some parts of the country. In Maryland, I can get away with opening a package and using it within a week or so before the weevils find it; in California, the weevils showed up almost as soon as I put the package in the cupboard.
I suggest investing in some Rubbermaid containers and making a habit of sealing all grain items as soon as you take them home from the store. Ziploc bags also work. The plastic shopping bags will NOT work.
You are a spoiled American. There are bugs in everything, in your canned good, in your frozen goods, in your processed foods but they’re usually really ground up and you don’t see them. Consumers complain if there are bugs and then complain if their food is sprayed.
You can get another brand of pasta but it is just as likely to have weevils as any other. Send me the coupons, I’ll use them.
Clean your cabinets, spray some bug spray, clean them again. I freeze most things for 72 hours, I don’t know if that really helps but I don’t have weevils. Bay leaves help too, just put them in your cupboard.
Mankind would die without insects.
I have found many little black bugs in pasta over the years. Not a problem, throw some oregano in the tomato sauce, you’ll never notice them, and you wont care, especially if you got the sauce done right. Everything tastes great in in tomato sauce.
All my flours, pasta, rice and any packaged dry ‘mixes’ get a trip through my 0F chest freezer for about a month.
No problems.