Does Chocolate Have Insect Parts?
Chocolate Can Contain Insect Fragments and Rodent Hairs (Or Worse). If You're Eating a Regular-Size Chocolate Bar (43 Grams), It Might Legally Contain 30 or...
Chocolate can contain insect fragments and rodent hairs (or worse). If you're eating a regular-size chocolate bar (43 grams), it might legally contain 30 or more insect parts and some rodent hair.
Does chocolate have bug parts in it?
According to ABC News, your average chocolate bar, for instance, contains around 8 insect parts. In a 2017 study by ant and insect control company Terro, this means that chocolate lovers could be eating almost 6,000 pieces of bugs in their diets every single year.
Why are there bugs in chocolate?
Yes, bugs. Chocolate comes from cacao beans, which come from the tiny flower of the cacao plant. Those plants are pollinated by even smaller flies called biting midges. ... One grain of pollen translates into one cacao bean, she says.
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