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[meanfreepath]

Just now I was eating lunch: the same meal I've had way too many times this summer, peanut butter on some type of bread product, this time on bagels from the Co-Op. I was merrily chewing away when I bit down on something hard but not crunchy, that was definitely not a peanut. Closer inspection revealed the object to be a woody twig, cylindrical in shape, about 20 mm long and 2 mm in diameter. I would certainly have seen it if it were on the outside of the bagel, and it seems highly unlikely that the twig was baked into the bagel. The only likely source of the twig, then, would be the chunky peanut butter I was eating. In all likelihood the twig came from the stem of a peanut plant and somehow was not removed during processing.

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Oh boy!

[obcordate.livejournal.com]

I found a ladybug in my salad once, but nothing that exciting.

You know what's fun? To look at the acceptable limits of impurities (bugs, etc.) in foods as set by the FDA. One of my most favorite reads. Forget about sticks: they allow 30 or more insect fragments per 100 grams of peanut butter.

I wonder how many grams (or kilograms!) of insect fragments most Americans [human Americans] consume on a yearly basis just by eating regular food, like peanut butter or bagels.