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Average Person Eats Up To One POUND Of Flies, Maggots And Other Bugs Accidentally Each Year - Here's How It Affects Your Health
DailyMail ^ | 4 July 2023 | STACY LIBERATORE

Posted on 07/07/2023 4:39:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway

The average person accidentally consumes one pound of bugs each year, according to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).

This is because fruits, vegetables, spices and many processed foods are legally permitted by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to contain tiny levels of bug parts, which add up over time.

For example, fig paste can contain up to 13 insect heads in 100 grams, canned fruit juices can have a maggot for every 250 milliliters and 10 grams of hops used to make beer can be the home for 2,500 small sap-sucking insects.

And while there is much debate over the number of bugs we consume in our sleep, scientists agree that it is not zero.

Swallowing a bug is not a pleasant experience, but data shows the average person accidentally eats up to one pound of critters each year (stock image)

Swallowing a bug is not a pleasant experience, but data shows the average person accidentally eats up to one pound of critters each year (stock image)

Eating insects may not sound appetizing, but most people consume them daily without realizing it.

The FDA's Food Detects Levels Handbook outlines the amount of insect heads, thoraxes, legs and even whole bugs that are allowed in a specific food.

There can be up to five whole insects in Apple Butter, 500 grams of larva in berries and 10 percent of packaged coffee beans are allowed to be infested with critters.

And after you have eaten 220 pounds of chocolate in your life, you can be sure you also consumed one pound of bugs.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: 00001hogwash; bugs; donate; donatedonaldtrump; donatetrump; eatbugs; eatthebugs; tightwad; wef
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To: ReaganGeneration2

So, If they actually try to make us eat bugs, will REAL Americans stand up and start shooting them?


41 posted on 07/07/2023 6:30:22 PM PDT by hoagy62 (Evil won...again.)
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To: Steely Tom

They are running this now so we can see how much we eat and how it doesn’t really affect us.

I am betting they are putting bugs in food on purpose now.


42 posted on 07/07/2023 6:37:49 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: nickcarraway

How about skanks, sluts, trollops, tarts, slatterns, tramps and wenches?


43 posted on 07/07/2023 6:39:52 PM PDT by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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To: nickcarraway

Yep. So-called Vegans eat a lot of animal parts.


44 posted on 07/07/2023 6:51:30 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Steely Tom

Yeah, I call BS on this.


45 posted on 07/07/2023 7:52:16 PM PDT by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

The programming is rather obvious these days.


46 posted on 07/07/2023 8:01:49 PM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers! Remember the J6 political prisoners!)
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To: nickcarraway

I’ve always said- “Ya gots to get your flyber!”


47 posted on 07/07/2023 8:23:35 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: nickcarraway

Cyanide & Happiness - Spider Facts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVMc2f3sOcE


48 posted on 07/07/2023 9:00:21 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("All he had was a handgun. Why did you think that was a threat?" --Rittenhouse Prosecutor)
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To: nickcarraway

Eat ze bugs. Make Uncle Klaus happy.


49 posted on 07/07/2023 9:21:49 PM PDT by yuleeyahoo (The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Hamilton)
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To: nickcarraway

Of all the things I needed to read today, this was not one of them.


50 posted on 07/07/2023 11:51:37 PM PDT by Mozzafiato
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To: ClearCase_guy
[and force us just to eat bugs]

Bugs - it's what the WEF sez every one else can eat for dinner - while THEY, the Globalist Elites, dine on lobster, steak, etc.


51 posted on 07/07/2023 11:56:49 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: nickcarraway

Then Gov. Spritzer and Crispy Cream Christie are the greatest bug eaters in the world, followed by Jerry Nadler and the original Al “I can’t believe I ate the whole buffet” Sharpton.

Orkin Man, move over. You’ve been replaced.


52 posted on 07/08/2023 12:07:44 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: nickcarraway

No sale.

Absolutely don’t believe the statement.


53 posted on 07/08/2023 12:32:15 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: GreenHornet
You want flies with that?

No, just the egg roll, please.

54 posted on 07/08/2023 5:37:09 AM PDT by Living Free in NH (now in Florida and loving life)
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To: LeoTDB69

If a praying mantis will eat it, why shouldn’t you?

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John the Baptist ate bugs, why shouldn’t you?


55 posted on 07/08/2023 8:01:12 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (Celebrating 42 years of sobriety this year, thank you Heavenly Father.)
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To: SecondAmendment
...we wouldn’t be so picky if food wasn’t abundant...

Eat the weevils

56 posted on 07/08/2023 10:31:19 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: nickcarraway; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; ...
IOW, if you're going cannibal, avoid the Soros.

57 posted on 07/08/2023 10:34:40 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: nickcarraway

Bill Gates want to up the amount to 300 pounds of insects for the ‘everyday people’... And zero for the ‘elites’...


58 posted on 07/08/2023 10:59:31 AM PDT by GOPJ (Stop 'gun violence' by stopping and incarcerating criminals.)
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To: Graybeard58

“John the Baptist ate bugs, why shouldn’t you?”

Bet he got tired of fish after all that time in the river. :D


59 posted on 07/08/2023 1:16:10 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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To: nickcarraway

I meant to post a comment to the effect of, “Big deal: They’re trying to get us to eat insects anyway” but I must not have posted it.

Irony:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4166473/posts


60 posted on 07/08/2023 6:15:15 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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