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Swear you’ll never eat a bug? Chances are you already have—hundreds of them! The U.S. government allows 30 insect parts for every 100 grams of peanut butter. Similar legal amounts of accidental ingredients apply to all processed food. (Hey, everybody makes mistakes!). The Food and Drug Administration Defect Levels Handbook lists all this stuff as passable, in moderation: mold, insect infestation, rodent hairs, worms, excrement, fly eggs, and maggots. So don’t worry about a stray rat hair dropping in on your Fluffernutter; there are bugs aplenty put in food on purpose. (chapulines)

Did You Know? On average, most of us swallow about a pound of insect parts every year.