Bugs are in your food, and it’s FDA approved

[jazzy]

eeewwwww

Bugs are in your food, and it’s FDA approved​

“The U.S. food-regulating agency permits a generous threshold of insects in foods before they’re considered contaminated: up to 60 aphids in 100 grams of frozen broccoli of 550 insect fragments per average box of pasta” says National Geographic. These bugs are natural, and they’re safe to consume!

https://dailylaboratories.com/599-2/

This country just approved 16 insects as food — which buggy bite would you eat?​

https://nypost.com/2024/07/10/lifes...sects-as-food-which-buggy-bite-would-you-eat/

 

[Pearl]

Oh good a new forum game! I'm going with GRASSHOPPERS, there's a lot of them in my neck of the woods, I'll never be hungry!!

 

[Neb]

Oh good a new forum game! I'm going with GRASSHOPPERS, there's a lot of them in my neck of the woods, I'll never be hungry!!

Do rodent fecal droppings qualify?

Ben

 

[jazzy]

Oh good a new forum game! I'm going with GRASSHOPPERS, there's a lot of them in my neck of the woods, I'll never be hungry!!

heres an idea--catch them critters with screenbags and sell them to the food processors! you will be a bugzillionaire in no time!

 

[jazzy]

Do rodent fecal droppings qualify?

Ben

sure they do---just call em rathoppers and bill gates will buy them!

 

[Supervisor42]

eeewwwww

Bugs are in your food, and it’s FDA approved​

“The U.S. food-regulating agency permits a generous threshold of insects in foods before they’re considered contaminated: up to 60 aphids in 100 grams of frozen broccoli of 550 insect fragments per average box of pasta” says National Geographic. These bugs are natural, and they’re safe to consume!
https://dailylaboratories.com/599-2/

This country just approved 16 insects as food — which buggy bite would you eat?​

https://nypost.com/2024/07/10/lifes...sects-as-food-which-buggy-bite-would-you-eat/

They always have been allowed in our food... at certain limits.
Decades ago, I studied the FDA limits on how much 'insect material' was allowed in foods. Shocking!
The only ones that I worry about are the ones that died because they were full of pesticide.

 

[Tommyice]

Oh good a new forum game! I'm going with GRASSHOPPERS, there's a lot of them in my neck of the woods, I'll never be hungry!!

Hope you’re not allergic to shellfish. Grasshoppers contain the same protein that makes people allergic to shellfish. If you see acheta in the ingredients—be careful.

 

[Supervisor42]

You have heard the constant drumbeat to ban 'red dye #2' because it is an 'evil synthetic'....
Be careful what you wish for, because it's replacement is standing by :

Anytime you see an ingredients list that includes carmine, cochineal extract or natural red 4, you can be sure that there's a little powdered bug therein... .Cochineal extract is extracted from the cochineal, specifically the female, a species of insect that belongs to the order entomologists refer to as the "true bugs."

 

[Bacpacker]

Do rodent fecal droppings qualify?

Ben

They always have. I worked with the FDA inspectors at the packing house in the 70s. There is a % of filth allowable

 

[Supervisor42]

You have heard the constant drumbeat to ban 'red dye #2' because it is an 'evil synthetic'....
Be careful what you wish for, because it's replacement is standing by :

You want 'all natural'? Well, they can do that.
You better watch RFKjr pretty close. You may not like the substitutes they will use!

 

[Supervisor42]

They always have. I worked with the FDA inspectors at the packing house in the 70s. There is a % of filth allowable

Yep, here's just a few:

• Cornmeal: One or more whole insects, two or more rodent hairs, and 50 or more insect fragments per ¼ cup
• Macaroni and noodle products: 225 insect fragments or more per 225 grams
• Ground marjoram: Up to 1,175 insect fragments per 10 grams
• Ground cinnamon: Up to 400 insect fragments per 50 grams
• Wheat, for example, can contain up to an average of 9 rodent poop pellets per kilogram (or about 4 pellets/pound).

 

[Mountain trapper]

Wow. Bugs in our food, plastic in our tea, drugs in our dolphins. What shall we do? I know, quit listening to the news.

 

[Pearl]

Do rodent fecal droppings qualify?

Ben

Sure, if that's what you would choose

Hope you’re not allergic to shellfish. Grasshoppers contain the same protein that makes people allergic to shellfish. If you see acheta in the ingredients—be careful.

Not allergic, but thanks for the heads up!

 

[Pearl]

Yep, here's just a few:

• Cornmeal: One or more whole insects, two or more rodent hairs, and 50 or more insect fragments per ¼ cup
• Macaroni and noodle products: 225 insect fragments or more per 225 grams
• Ground marjoram: Up to 1,175 insect fragments per 10 grams
• Ground cinnamon: Up to 400 insect fragments per 50 grams
• Wheat, for example, can contain up to an average of 9 rodent poop pellets per kilogram (or about 4 pellets/pound).

Protein in every bite!

 

[Magus]

Wow. Bugs in our food, plastic in our tea, drugs in our dolphins. What shall we do? I know, quit listening to the news.

I did.
Screw those "THEY" People, live free.

 

[snappy1]

Honey bees are top of the list. That seems counter productive to me. Aren't we supposed to save the bees, not eat them?

 

[Tommyice]

You have heard the constant drumbeat to ban 'red dye #2' because it is an 'evil synthetic'....
Be careful what you wish for, because it's replacement is standing by :

That’s the same bug that was used to make the dye for British officers’ redcoats.

I’ve got some in the dye supplies for yarn.

 

[Pearl]

Honey bees are top of the list. That seems counter productive to me. Aren't we supposed to save the bees, not eat them?

Eat honey not bees!!

 

[Weedygarden]

Oh good a new forum game! I'm going with GRASSHOPPERS, there's a lot of them in my neck of the woods, I'll never be hungry!!

We had a sealed tuna sized can of dried grasshoppers that was in our pantry as a kid for as long as I could remember. When Grandma was cleaning out the house to sell, we finally opened that can. Just dried grasshoppers. I never knew where dad bought that can of grasshoppers and a part of me wishes I still had it for a conversation piece.

I think they were likely something for feeding some animal, like snakes or turtles or some reptile.

 

[Caribou]

We had a sealed tuna sized can of dried grasshoppers that was in our pantry as a kid for as long as I could remember. When Grandma was cleaning out the house to sell, we finally opened that can. Just dried grasshoppers. I never knew where dad bought that can of grasshoppers and a part of me wishes I still had it for a conversation piece.

I think they were likely something for feeding some animal, like snakes or turtles or some reptile.

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I’ve seen a few bugs for sale for human consumption for over fifty years. Mostly it is stuff like chocolate covered grasshoppers, etc.

 

[Magus]

Honey ants and locusts have been around in Mexico forever.

 

[SoulSeeker]

I've seen the small raisin size boxes of grasshoppers, plain, and chocolate covered. I'm not a big fan of eating bugs but we'll eat anything if we're hungry! I'd rather have some nice big juicy slugs! Have you seen the prices for escargot? Those are like baby snails! Bill Gates wants to put fart baffles in cattle! Who gets that job?

 

[Weedygarden]

Around 1980, there was conversation that things like hot dogs contained earth worms. There was a term, probably a chemical, that was named that people were saying was really ground up earth worms. I suppose you could eat them as well, but, no thank you. I was never big on hot dogs and that may have contributed to my lack of adding them to my foods.