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Here&#39;s What&#39;s LEGALLY Allowed In Your Food

mold hair poop things you'd never allow yourself to eat but according to the FDA you've probably been eating them for years the United States Food and Drug Administration has identified levels of 179 natural or unavoidable defects in food that are an acceptable risk to your health let's take a look at the shocking things that the FDA allows on your plate PE the fda's food defect levels handbook lists insect Parts as the most common defect in your food we're talking legs Wings thorax Seas whole heads and brains these insects show up in your frozen fruit frozen broccoli frozen Brussels sprouts odds are anything that grows out of the soil probably has some degree of insect parts that accidentally get taken in when the plants get harvested in the case of items like cinnamon that get ground into a powder the insects can get ground in there too and while eating those insects might not sound too appetizing remember the FDA deems it poses no no inherent Hazard To Your Health it could potentially give you a little protein kick too the second most common defect in American food is mold rot and mildew and if you've ever let fruits or vegetables sit too long on the table or in the fridge then you know mold is inevitable and it's pretty easy to notice blue cheese good mold some mold is quite dangerous and can actually produce mot toxins unfortunately mold is common in something you may consume every day coffee beans Don't Panic though in order to pass the inspection by the FDA no more than 10% of beans in any given count can be moldy and there's an important note here while small amounts of mold and Foods monitored by the FDA is okay you should never eat a piece of bread with even a small spot of mold on it while you may think mold exists in just that discoloration the microscopic roots of that mold spread throughout the entire item this is unlike berries where you can throw away the berry with the visible mold and consume the other normal appearing ones oh I got bare hair in my mouth and speaking of bare hairs rodent hair is the third most common defect in our food it shows up commonly in ground spices like cinnamon Curry oregano and Nutmeg but also in items like macaroni and cheese peanut butter and popcorn literally the FDA says one rodent hair per 100 Gams of peanut butter is a okay I think if you have a pet like I do we definitely consume more hairs than that right bear high five probably the fanciest name on the list mamia excreta is the fourth most common defect despite its Latin name mamia is not some high-end perfume or university catchphrase it's poop animal poop where there are animals there is poop and you've most likely been eating it I'm talking black pepper cocoa beans even wheat I understand that eating mamalian excreta is probably the most disgusting thing you can think of but just remember that manure or cow poop is used to grow crops all around the world so say it with me we all poop and thank you poop this next one isn't even so so bad foreign matter this is a random collection of all sorts of weird little things that can slip into the growth harvesting and shipping process things like sticks from Plants stones from the earth burlap bag material from transport and cigarette butts the FDA only allows up to 1% of the weight of pickings and siftings of these foods to contain foreign matter though so it's really nothing you should concern yourself about how about a tasty bowl of babies that's right the FDA recognizes that is financially and realistically impossible to completely eliminate insect eggs larvae and maggots from your food that's why they allow up to five fly eggs per 500 G of canned tomatoes two 3 mm long larae in canned corn or 10 insect eggs per 8 oz of raisins and I only thought people ate larvae on Fear Factor we are so grateful to Mother Earth for our food so we shouldn't be too ungrateful to learn that she's left a bit more of herself in there than meets the eye the FDA allows a small amount of shells stems sand and pits in our food you'll find pits and dates olives and prunes shells with your nuts stems in your cloves and sand in your cumin again all very small amounts there's probably some good fiber in there anyway and finally it's time for what I think is the most disgusting defect the FDA allows in our food parasitic cysts it sounds gross when I even say it a cyst is a sack that can be filled with air liquid pus or parasites a parasitic cyst is a sack that contains the the larae or the baby version of a parasite consumption of undercooked meats and fish puts you at a higher risk for developing parasitic infections like worms in your GI track complete prevention of parasitic cyst from fish is Impractical as they're frequently found inside the fish and therefore some of those cysts inevitably wind up in our Seafood for example in White Fish the FDA allows up to 50 parasitic cysts per 100 lb that's why I recommend you air on the side of caution and skip that gas station Sushi lots of people ask ask me if it's dangerous to hold in a sneeze I answer that question here and more on this responding to comments check it out as always stay happy and healthy and be careful with those sneezes watch that video just kidding gotcha [Music]

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