Some insects I found inside dried Turkish figs from Trader Joe’s

Re:Some insects I found inside dried Turkish figs from Trade... by somenameforme on Thursday February 02, 2023 @03:10AM (#34623645)

I expect she was describing something else. Bugs, especially things like weevils [1] tend to lay microsized eggs in grains of all sort. Even when hermetically sealed they'll be able to hatch and thrive. I tend to buy relatively large quantities of things like rice, flour, etc and finding bugs in hermetically sealed bags after some lengthy time is not uncommon.

It's not bugs getting into your food from the outside, but being packaged into your food! If you don't have bugs it means they've been killed in some way, and one of the easiest to do that is chemical. Incidentally, weevils (the most common) are harmless and tasteless to consume. It just means a bit of extra protein in your food!

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weevil

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Re:Some insects I found inside dried Turkish figs from Trade... by darkerside on Thursday February 02, 2023 @09:23AM (#34626847)

I think that's exactly what OP was describing

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Re:Some insects I found inside dried Turkish figs from Trade... by jsharf on Thursday February 02, 2023 @09:46AM (#34627168)

Is it extra protein, if they lived only off the rice in the bag? Presumably all the protein inside of them came from rice that would have otherwise been there.

I guess it helps digest and synthesize some of the proteins for you.

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Re:Some insects I found inside dried Turkish figs from Trade... by Karawebnetwork on Thursday February 02, 2023 @10:36AM (#34627996)

We eat grazing animals because they turn grass into muscles (proteins). It's similar for insects. That said, I don't know how the protein amount in one insect compares to the protein amount in rice.

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Re:Some insects I found inside dried Turkish figs from Trade... by mhb on Thursday February 02, 2023 @10:15AM (#34627623)

> weevils (the most common) are harmless and tasteless to consume

So chances are good of eating the lesser of two weevils!

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