Feb 18, 2009
How Much Disgusting Junk is in Your Food?
This type of article comes out once in a while and it never makes me feel better. In fact, it makes me want to stop eating anything, ever. I don’t want to eat anymore bug parts.
Peanut butter — that culinary cause célèbre — may contain approximately 145 bug parts for an 18-ounce jar; or five or more rodent hairs for that same jar; or more than 125 milligrams of grit.
In case you’re curious: you’re probably ingesting one to two pounds of flies, maggots and mites each year without knowing it, a quantity of insects that clearly does not cut the mustard, even as insects may well be in the mustard.
(Via Boing Boing)
Dude, more protein! I heard cereal is a big culprit of this too. No way am I giving up cereal or PB. Thorax Flakes are a part of my complete balanced breakfast.
Makes me think of Empire of the Sun where they had to eat the bugs crawling around in their bowls for the protein content.