This might make you never want to eat ANYTHING again, but we found a list online of gross things the FDA allows in food. Here are six things that technically won’t hurt you, they’re just disgusting . . .
- Ground-up insects. It’s impossible to prevent it sometimes. So a jar of cinnamon can have about 400 insect fragments . . . a jar of oregano can have THOUSANDS . . . and an ounce of the stuff in Fig Newtons can contain up to four insect HEADS.
- Mouse poop. There are small traces of it in everything from popcorn to flour. The FDA only allows about five to ten milligrams per pound though.
- Mold. Lots of foods have trace amounts of it, including ketchup. But the grossest one might be canned peaches. The FDA allows up to 3% of them to be, quote, “wormy or moldy.”
- Maggots. A 24-ounce jar of tomato sauce can have one-and-a-half maggots in it. And some orange juice can have the equivalent of one maggot per CUP.
- Rat hair. It’s found in a lot of spices, but also ends up in peanut butter, chocolate, and pasta.
- Cigarette butts. A tiny amount of random “foreign matter” is allowed in salt, pepper, certain spices, and things like sesame seeds. And it’s not unheard of for ground-up cigarettes to get in there. (Live Science)
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