Insects in your Chocolate

March 1, 2010 by: haidha

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Did you know that the average chocolate bar in the U.S. contains at least 8 pieces of an insect in it? Harvesting of the cacao beans occurs in the tropical countries of South America with low sanitation levels. Cacao tree beans are cut and piled in the farmer’s field where they ferment for 6 days. During this process, children and adults walk over the piles; insects, rodents, small animals and other living things that make their nests in the piles. Actually the The U. S. Department of Health publishes a book entitled “The Food Defect Action Levels” in which they list unavoidable defects in food (insect, rodents etc.) all allowed by FDA.

http://www.interestingfacts.org/fact/insects-in-your-chocolate

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7 Responses to “Insects in your Chocolate”
  1. Hilmi says:

    yes chocolate lover, you eat insect.. but insect’s taste not so bad

  2. harris says:

    damn!!

  3. is it just chocolate in us or all over the world? or do they have specific brand tht have insects in it?

  4. Hilmi says:

    Banyak tanye plak mamat ni.. kne suruh Taicho jawab ni…

  5. aimanj says:

    my mom always said “life is like a box of chocolate”, u never know that there are hundreds insects inside it..

  6. aimanj says:

    im sorry..i forgot..my mom said this: “life is like a box of chocolate, there are lots of species of insects inside it.”.. sorry i tend to forget everything my mom said…

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