I couldn't NOT share this with you guys.. Gross.

Caterpillars aren't ugly.

They are in my spinach! :noway:

Protein, yum.

Rigger

Insects on my veggies don't bother me. I find them pretty often on my produce. I know what to look for.... dad was an entomologist (checked farms for bugs) and I'm a horticulturist so I've seen my share of critters on fresh food. What's more concerning is what they put on our food to keep the pests away. I.e. the same pesticides used for flea and tick control for your dog, termites for your house are also used on many, many agricultural crops. We eat plenty of pesticide residue each day on fresh and processed. Even certified organic produce can be treated with some pretty gnarly 'natural' pesticides. Who knows what that does to our health! So bugs aren't a healthy concern, I'll take aphids on my broccoli over pesticides ANY day! I'm climbing off my soap box now. Cheers to all little critters everywhere!

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Another one I've heard is roaches in ground black pepper...... Apparently 2% of ground pepper is allowed to be roaches. Don't know if that's accurate, but I grind my own anyway.

Am i the only one that has never found a bug of any kind in vegetables I've purchased?

Meh, bugs are edible. Some of the best and most bioavailable protein known to man is from meal worms. Pesticides and GMOs freak me out.

I swallow a couple of bugs whenever I go on bike rides. Not sure how to log that...

Debating if I want to read it or not... I'm a good veggie eater! I don't want to vomit just thinking of eating them!:sick: My friend once told me there was tiny white worms in brocoli! ewww

Do you eat fresh or frozen veggies? I will continue to eat my frozen broccoli, but I've been eating Great Value diced carrots in the cups for a long time and never saw anything suspicious. Does kind of turn me off though

My Mum & Dad apparently watched some thing on tv about frozen vegies that are imported from Asian countries. They are allegedly grown in people's urine & faeces so now my Dad refuses to eat frozen vegies that aren't from Australia.

Farming practices
Earlier this year, Today Tonight revealed shocking farming practices in certain countries, such as Thailand, India and China. Dangerous chemicals such as DDT and Deildren, banned in Australia decades ago, were being used on vegetable crops.

Tests on dried foods imported into Australia showed 16 out of 50 (one in three) had carcinogenic residues.

"Yet we allow products to come into this country that contain these chemicals," Mr Laird said. "It's just not good enough."

In China, untreated animal waste and human excrement from nearby toilet blocks were being used as fertiliser on hectares of vegetables, including cauliflower, celery, cabbages, snow peas, corn. These vegetables were grown for export to many countries, including Australia.

"The whole area of China seems to be a disaster looking for somewhere to happen," Mr Sibraa said. "The hygiene is not very good for a start, nobody's really checking it. They pretend they are but they are not."

"And the use of human faeces to cultivate crops is just beyond anyone's comprehension."

Professor Collignon urged far tougher standards for imports.

"The trouble at the moment is, trade seems to outweigh public health and we need to make sure public health has pre-eminence rather than money," declares infectious diseases physician, Professor Collignon.

He warned that some bugs on these foods were antibiotic-resistant.

In India, they eat fresh live maggots. Don't worry about trivial things. You've been eating the canned mushrooms and you're fine.

This is like the arsenic in the apple juice BS.

Its in chicken to very smal small amounts

No. They literally eat a plate of it.

Chicken has arsenic, not maggots. And yes, many cultures eat bugs. Not sure why we don't here in North America.

If you know of anything else gross like that, please, let me know!:noway:

http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/bugjuice.asp

More bug stuff. Most red food coloring is made from crushed cochineal insects.... that's right, the red color in your strawberry oatmeal, fruit juice, strawberry and cherry gelatin, and on and on... They're widely used for foods, beverages, and cosmetics.

For some people who are confused about not seeing maggots in their mushrooms: the maggots are ground up and added as a powder. It's on purpose. Companies use ground up insects as a cheap form of protein boost for certain kinds of foods. That's why you're not seeing any of those 30 creepy crawlies in your canned shrooms. We eat hella bugs all the time, just in a less scary powdered form.

You should watch a program I watch here in England called food unwrapped.... Very very interesting!!

I love fresh mushrooms, but canned mushrooms are something I've never used. Maggots or not, canned mushrooms are foul, slimy things. Canned vegetables (except for tomatoes) are for the most part disgusting to me anyway. I eat fresh or frozen. A few bug parts hasn't hurt me yet...

They have to use bugs so that they can put all natural, no artificial additives on the label and so people don't go on a rant on MFP about chemicals.

there's also fecal particles in your drinking water
are you going to stop drinking water?

I think the important question is... How does the protein from maggots affect your macros? :drinker: