Eat This, Not....... Rodent Pellets

I recently bought the book, Eat This, Not That by David Zinczenko. It has a lot of great tips for cutting fat and calories and upping the fiber intake, and I totally recommend it, blah, blah, blah, but all that is not what I wanted to share with you.

There is a little section in this book dedicated to the wrong kind of protein.... "the little bonus ingredients the FDA allows in your food."

Here's the chart.

FOOD.................... CAN CONTAIN UP TO...

Canned pineapple...... 20% moldy fruit

Canned tomatoes....... 5 fly eggs or 2 maggots per 500 grams

Frozen Broccoli.......... 60 mites per 100 grams

Ground cinnamon........ 400 insect fragments and 11 rodent hairs per 50 grams

Peanut Butter........ 30 insect fragments or 1 rodent hard per 100 grams

Popcorn............ 1 rodent pellet in one sample or 2 rodent hairs per pound

Potato Chips........ 6% rotten potatoes

Funny stuff, huh? At first glance, it grosses me out to think this, but then I realize that similar stuff is probably on my dishes that I eat off of, in my clean bed sheets, and flying into my mouth while I sleep.

Just some food/insect fragments for thought, I guess. Chew on that.