Insects in your Chocolate

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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

7 thoughts on “Insects in your Chocolate

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

  2. 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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