20 Disgusting Things Actually Allowed in Food

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10.Canned beets – Rot
Beets are making quite the comeback in healthy cuisine due to powerful nutrient compounds that help prevent certain cancers, heart disease, and even birth defects! Canned beets though may contain dry rot! No cause for alarm since the FDA doesn’t allow more than an average or 5% or more pieces by weight with dry rot” so you’re safe. Don’t let dry rot keep you away from this healthy veggie that will supercharge your body!

9.Cinnamon – Rodent Hairs
With the holidays just passed most of us has some type of dish with this spice sprinkled on top or mixed in. Now just think about the 10 rodent hairs making their way into your stomach. When checking this festive spice and “average of 11 or more rodent hairs per 50 grams” of cinnamon doesn’t make the cut. Keep in mind that in world of medicinal spices cinnamon is #1 in its value of protective antioxidant levels.

8.Apple butter – Bugs
Sometimes you just can’t avoid a few creepy crawlers in your sweet apple butter spread. So let’s keep it under an “average of 5 or more whole or equivalent insects (not counting mites, aphids, thrips, or scale insects) per 100 grams of apple butter. The little greens tear drop shaped insects you see here are aphids. Who’s got toast, a few insects, and apple butter;let’s make a snack!

7.Apricot, peach, and pear nectars – Mold
Sipping on the sweet nectar of apricot, peach, or pear can be refreshing and delicious. Whenever you’re taking a gulp you don’t always think about what else is in this drink other than the amount of extra sugars. While being refreshed by the sweet drink it could contain up to 11% of mold in it! It is only considered too moldent when the “ average count is 12% or more”. Well good thing because mold in an even number percentage would be just too much to sip on.

6.Canned or frozen asparagus – Beetle eggs
Here’s a photo of a close up look at what beetle eggs would look like on an asparagus leaf. It’s only considered more than the allowed percentage when 10% of the pieces or spears of asparagus have beetle and/or sacs are infested with 6 or more. Take a quick peek at your veggies next time it’s possible you could be eating BEETLE SACS. Or not any at all. Canned asparagus is a good source of protein, fiber, and many other nutritional goodies just watch out for that sodium!… and beetle sacs.

5.Brined or Maraschino cherries – Maggots
That special topping on a sundae or the special surprise at the bottom of your sangria could have maggot remains. Cherries are only tossed out when an “average or 5% or more pieces are rejects due to maggots.” Wouldn’t most of us just pretend this facts wasn’t on here just to eat a few more? You can see in this photo what it would be like to bite into a cherry and find this little maggot wiggling around in it.

4.Sauerkraut – Thrips
Do you know what thrips are? They are hideous little bugs in your sauerkraut! Okay so they aren’t on a mission to ruin your food. Although if “an average of more than 50 thrips per 100 grams” are detected in the dish it is considered too many by the FDA.

3. Wheat – Rodent excreta “pellets”
Rodent hairs in cinnamon and now poo in our wheat!? You’ve got to be kidding me. An “average of 9mg or more rodent excreta pellets and/or pellet fragments per kilogram” of wheat” makes the FDA say get lost. Are any of these food items your favorite so far? The last two on this list will make your skin crawl, but not for medical reasons. Since the FDA makes sure that whatever gets left in your food is safe for consumption.

2.Canned or frozen spinach – Larvae
Another fun fact to make the kiddos eat their vegetables! The FDA makes sure that spinach doesn’t contain “ 2 or more 3mm or longer larvae and/or larval fragments or spinach worms (caterpillars) whose aggregate length exceeds 12 mm are present in 24 pounds. Eat up kids! Spinach is very low in cholesterol and saturated fat, but a good source of lots a vitamins to keep your strong and healthy.

1. Red fish & ocean perch – Copepods (parasites) with PUS POCKETS
Not everyone is a fan of fish in their diet and maybe this will help them add more sea food in their meals. The FDA draws the line when “3% of the fillets examined contain 1 or more copepods accompanied by pus pockets”. So only 2 or 3 out of every 100 red fish and ocean perch contain these small free swimming marine crustaceans sometime accompanied by pus pockets. How about now, feeling fishy?