The Grossest Bugs You Don’t Know You’re Eating

Find out which foods contain the most bugs and how to avoid eating them.

By Emily Main

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If you've eaten canned black-eyed peas then you've probably eaten Cowpea Curculio

Cowpea curculio

Love black-eyed peas? Buy them dried and cook them yourself, rather than buying them frozen or canned. A can of black-eyed peas, cowpeas, or field peas may contain an average of five or more cowpea curculio larvae, which will grow into dark brown, beetle-like weevils that infest all manner of peas and beans.

Photo: (cc) Clemson University/USDA Cooperative Extension Slide Series

 

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