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Worse Than Poop Cupcakes: FDA Guidelines for Eating Maggots

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http://gawker.com/5803161/the-fdas-guidelines-for-eating-maggots

Do you read the ingredients in food before you buy it?  What foods will you not buy based on the ingredients?

How do you feel about partially hydrogenated oil? 

Random, I know.
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Re: Worse Than Poop Cupcakes: FDA Guidelines for Eating Maggots

  • In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_worse-poop-cupcakes-fda-guidelines-eating-maggots?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:945e7d5a-a8fd-4db4-890a-46cb69e9b7eePost:6aa69467-ca35-4ea1-b94f-3aa789f75901">Worse Than Poop Cupcakes: FDA Guidelines for Eating Maggots</a>:
    [QUOTE]Sick: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://gawker.com/5803161/the-fdas-guidelines-for-eating-maggots">http://gawker.com/5803161/the-fdas-guidelines-for-eating-maggots</a>
    <strong>I try not to think about that kind of stuff. I also think the FDA is full of shiit anyway.
    </strong>Do you read the ingredients in food before you buy it?
     <strong>Not really. I try not to buy too much processed food, but more than that, even if I did read the ingredients, I probably wouldn't know which ones were especially bad for me. </strong>
    What foods will you not buy based on the ingredients?
    <strong>Margarine, which is like 2 molecules away from plastic, apparently. And processed cheese food. No fake cheese in my house.</strong>
    How do you feel about partially hydrogenated oil? 
    <strong>I know it's bad for you. I can't say that I pay all that much attention to whether or not they use it in any of the stuff I buy. </strong>
    Random, I know.
    Posted by pinkpinot[/QUOTE]
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  • I can't see the link, but I've always heard hotdogs and Hershey bars (random, I know) have bug pieces in them (due to them falling in during production, not added purposefully), and there's a certain amount that is "allowed".

    Ew. Now I don't want to go to lunch.
  • I never knew that about cheese!  Holy sads.  What cheese do you get LC?  No more fake cheese for me either.
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  • I don't buy margarine either.
  • mica178mica178 member
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    Didn't you all learn about this during 11th grade history (food standards were among the first things the FDA addressed)?  Yup, there are bugs in our foods.  Humans have the ability to digest chitin for a reason.  I wouldn't think about it for too long.
  • Georgia:

    The FDA’s Guidelines for Eating Maggots

    Maureen O'Connor — Looking for new ways to stymy your appetite? Try the FDA's Food Defect Action Levels Handbook, a great new diet book guide for food distributors and inspectors. It details exactly how many maggots a comestible good may contain before it gets banned for "aesthetic" reasons, i.e., "being too icky."

    Examples of acceptable defects:

    CURRANT JAM, BLACK Mold (MPM-V61) Average mold count is 75% or more

    MUSHROOMS, CANNED AND DRIED Insects (AOAC 967.24) Average of over 20 or more maggots of any size per 100 grams of drained mushrooms and proportionate liquid or 15 grams of dried mushrooms OR Average of 5 or more maggots 2 mm or longer per 100 grams of drained mushrooms and proportionate liquid or 15 grams of dried mushrooms

    POPCORN Rodent filth (AOAC 950.91) 1 or more rodent excreta pellets are found in 1 or more subsamples, and 1 or more rodent hairs are found in 2 or more other subsamples OR 2 or more rodent hairs per pound and rodent hair is found in 50% or more of the subsamples OR 20 or more gnawed grains per pound and rodent hair is found in 50% or more of the subsamples

    ASPARAGUS, CANNED OR FROZEN Insect filth (MPM-V93) 10% by count of spears or pieces are infested with 6 or more attached asparagus beetle eggs and/or sacs

    Does this mean vegans can't eat mushrooms, anymore?

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  • Gross.

    My father refuses to eat or drink anything with hydrogenated oil in it.  I'm...less careful about it.  I will eat it, but sparingly.  Such as in the case of Samoas. 
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  • pinkpinotpinkpinot member
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    My co-worker's wife is a very crunchy lady so to speak.  She avoids all food the 'bad stuff' as she calls it.  I recently started reading labels and EVERYTHING in my kitchen has it.  I don't know WTF to eat.
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  • In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_worse-poop-cupcakes-fda-guidelines-eating-maggots?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:945e7d5a-a8fd-4db4-890a-46cb69e9b7eePost:d6343d18-c5e8-42b4-9883-6f338dce90bb">Re: Worse Than Poop Cupcakes: FDA Guidelines for Eating Maggots</a>:
    [QUOTE]I never knew that about cheese!  Holy sads.  What cheese do you get LC?  No more fake cheese for me either.
    Posted by pinkpinot[/QUOTE]
    As long as it doesn't say processed cheese food on the packaging, I'll buy it. I'm talking about those craft singles that feel like soft plastic, ya know? Processed cheese food has a really specific texture and you can always tell the difference in that and real cheese.
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  • annakb8annakb8 member
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    Do you read the ingredients in food before you buy it?  What foods will you not buy based on the ingredients? Yes, usually. I also try to buy as few processed foods as possible and if food has some ingredients I can't identify or pronounce I at least think twice about eating it. I also tend to agree with LC, the FDA is full of shiit. I don't for a second believe their main agenda is actually ensuring that Americans have access to healthy, nutricious food.

    How do you feel about partially hydrogenated oil? Another thing I try to avoid I guess. Like I said I try not to eat a ton of processed stuff so I don't think it's a huge problem for me.

    Overall I spend way too much on groceries because of all this. I try to eat as much organic produce as possible and I specifically buy meat at Whole Foods, even though it's more expensive, because they are MUCH more likely to have free range, grass fed, or local options when it comes to protein.
  • What ingredients constitute a "processed" food? 
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  • Well, that's just nasty.
  • I would love nothing more than to buy all my meat at Whole Foods. I'm sure I'd be able to find a non hormone and water filled, under 5 lbs whole chicken. But it's just not in the budget man. It's not a matter of I'd have to spend less money in another area, it's I literally cannot afford the meat at Whole Foods. Grocery shopping at evilmegacorporation Wal Mart kills my soul, but damn if it isn't the most economical option available to me.
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  • annakb8annakb8 member
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    [QUOTE]What ingredients constitute a "processed" food? 
    Posted by pinkpinot[/QUOTE]


    In the truest sense of the work, anything that you eat that isn't in the same state as it was when it came out of the ground/tree/animal is processed. So olives are a whole food, but olive oil is by definition processed. So yeah, I do eat processed stuff, but I really try to avoid anything highly processed. I eat cheese, but only real cheese with minimal ingredients, not kraft singles. And I don't really use a lot of packaged stuff, I just buy veggies, grains, and meats and cook with them. No pre-made meals or anything like that. I do eat canned beans and tomatoes, but hopefully one day I will have the space and equipment to be crunchy enough to can my own.
  • annakb8annakb8 member
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    [QUOTE]I would love nothing more than to buy all my meat at Whole Foods. I'm sure I'd be able to find a non hormone and water filled, under 5 lbs whole chicken. But it's just not in the budget man. It's not a matter of I'd have to spend less money in another area, it's I literally cannot afford the meat at Whole Foods. Grocery shopping at evilmegacorporation Wal Mart kills my soul, but damn if it isn't the most economical option available to me.
    Posted by laurenclaire1386[/QUOTE]

    I don't have access to Wal-Mart or anything really cheap like that (without driving at least 40 minutes or so) and all the grocery stores are expensive which makes it easy to justify buying meat at Whole Foods. I've been trying to reduce our grocery bill as much as possible while still eating good stuff and I don't spend that much more at Whole Foods. Well as long as I can restrain myself from buying the delicious fancy cheese and stuff like that.

    If Wal-Mart was a viable option for me I might be there too.
  • Kraft singles are not cheese.  Luckily I'm eating one thing right. 

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    [QUOTE]What ingredients constitute a "processed" food? 
    Posted by pinkpinot[/QUOTE]
    To me, processed food is most of the stuff in the middle of the grocery store. If you stay on the perimeter of the grocery store, you'll spend less money and get better for you food.
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  • mica178mica178 member
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    When I first met H, American cheese was the only cheese he ate.  He still prefers it on his cheeseburger.  *headdesk*
  • My H thought he wouldn't eat leftovers. He'd make a meal and throw away what he didn't eat. I was appalled when I saw him do that. He eats leftovers now.
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    [QUOTE]In Response to Re: Worse Than Poop Cupcakes: FDA Guidelines for Eating Maggots : To me, processed food is most of the stuff in the middle of the grocery store. If you stay on the perimeter of the grocery store, you'll spend less money and get better for you food.
    Posted by laurenclaire1386[/QUOTE]

    <div>Yep. I avoid pretty much everything but the canned veggie/bean and baking aisles in the supermarket. The real food is out there at the edges, but even then you have to be careful--they put the Lunchables and hot dogs right next to the better for you options.</div><div>
    </div><div>Random factoid: Anna, even olives aren't really an unprocessed food. You can't pick an olive right off the tree and eat it. They have to be brined or fermented because they're so hard and bitter. </div>
  • annakb8annakb8 member
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    [QUOTE]In Response to Re: Worse Than Poop Cupcakes: FDA Guidelines for Eating Maggots : Yep. I avoid pretty much everything but the canned veggie/bean and baking aisles in the supermarket. The real food is out there at the edges, but even then you have to be careful--they put the Lunchables and hot dogs right next to the better for you options.<strong> Random factoid: Anna, even olives aren't really an unprocessed food. You can't pick an olive right off the tree and eat it. They have to be brined or fermented because they're so hard and bitter. </strong>
    Posted by opalsky007[/QUOTE]

    Damn, I should have picked a better example. So um...walnuts are unprocessed, but walnut oil is.
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    [QUOTE]My H thought he wouldn't eat leftovers. He'd make a meal and throw away what he didn't eat. I was appalled when I saw him do that. He eats leftovers now.
    Posted by laurenclaire1386[/QUOTE]
    I was like that too for some reason.  Leftovers skeeved me out.  Once I moved out of my mom's house and started paying for my own groceries that changed reeeaal quick.  
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  • opalsky007opalsky007 member
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    Better. It's splitting hairs anyway. :)

    I don't care that what I eat is totally unprocessed-- most everything has some level of processing. I mostly care that what I'm eating isn't the result of a process that had to be developed in a lab. Milling, cooking, salting, brining, pressed to make oil? Fine. Flavored with modified food starch or stabilized with something I can't pronounce? I'd rather not. I would not turn it down if offered to me, but I aim not to buy those things myself.
  • annakb8annakb8 member
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    Yeah, Opal, I guess that is mostly what I'm talking about. No weird lab produced processing. And I do try to eat food in as whole a form as I can get it most of the time but I'm not turning down the white rice when I go to Chipotle.
  • Why oh why did I open this thread. The title should have steered me away. Honestly I am pretty gross and in I do not think twice about the food I eat. But I have heard something about red candy has ground up beetles in it for color. Ick .

  • I am pretty ignorant to most of the ingredients in things I eat.  I'm sure the 100 calorie pack of chocolate covered pretzels I have in my lunch bag have mostly things I can't pronounce.  But I'm po' and short on time right now so it is what it is :)
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  • TR, I'm on your bench.  I wish I had the time to grocery shop and look at all the ingredients and cook healthy dinners that would serve as lunch the next day.  It just ain't happening.  Not while I have this commute anyway...
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  • That's exactly my biggest motivation.  Can I eat this tonight and also tomorrow for lunch?  Well, that and will this make enough food to satisfy H because I swear he can be a bottomless pit sometimes.
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  • My H too!  If he makes a big dinner, the "leftovers" are heated up and eaten by him about 3 hours after dinner.  So usually there is just nothing left to take to lunch anyway but it's wishful thinking. 
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  • annakb8annakb8 member
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    I almost always make myself a big batch of something on Sunday to take for lunches during the week. And I try to make it something FI doesn't want so I have it for myself. Usually quinoa with roasted veggies or lentils and rice. We almost never have leftover either, and if we do FI always claims them.
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