Regarding chocolate, some disgusting claims have been circulating on the Internet over the years. It is rumored that each piece of chocolate has 8 insects fading; each piece of chocolate contains flies, cockroaches and other insect corpses, and there are also mice in the chocolate. Hair...
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Are there really insect bodies and mouse hair in the chocolate?
This is really possible, but not every piece, or even if there are 8 insects on every piece, it is not certain.
There are insect corpses and mouse hair in chocolate, which have a lot to do with the chocolate making process.
Generally, the birth of a chocolate requires farmers to harvest the cocoa beans for making chocolate from fruit trees, and then the pulp is taken out by the farmers for fermentation, drying, and then sent to the processing plant for cleaning, baking and crushing , Grind, become the raw material of chocolate such as cocoa butter, cocoa powder, and the final processing can become our unique chocolate.
Among them, the fermentation and drying process takes place in the planting area, and they are all carried out in the open air, and the pulp is in the process of fermentation and drying. It will emit a strong sweet taste, which is very attractive to cockroaches, ants, flies, and other insects, mice and other animals, and some insects and animal hair will inevitably remain in it, and the subsequent processing will also It is difficult to remove these insect carcasses and animal hair.
In addition, due to the uneven level of fermentation operations in the production areas, from insufficient to excessive fermentation, and even mildew.
In fact, in the face of these problems in food, the US Food and Drug Administration has made regulations. The specific requirement for chocolate is to detect 6 pieces of chocolate (100 grams each) and the average number of insect fragments. No more than 60 pieces, and no more than 90 pieces of a single piece of chocolate. The average hair of rodents does not exceed one, and a single piece of chocolate does not exceed three.
In other words, there are indeed a small amount of insect carcasses or animal hair in chocolate. As long as it is within a safe range and does not affect health, the country is legally acceptable.
There are insect carcasses and mouse hair in chocolate. Can I still eat it?
As mentioned above, there are insect carcasses or animal hair in chocolate, as long as it is within a safe range, it can be eaten.
In China, there are actually no regulations on insects and hair in chocolate. It can be seen that animal carcasses and hair in chocolate are not the focus of food safety.
But other issues in chocolate must be paid attention to. For example, in China's chocolate testing standards, arsenic, lead, and copper in chocolate have safety indicators, and the content of coliform, mold and yeast in chocolate There are also safety indicators. Salmonella, Shigella, and Staphylococcus aureus cannot exist in chocolate.
Therefore, to eat chocolate, it must be the official channel that has passed the national inspection. Of course, if you think there may be animal carcasses in the chocolate, it is really disgusting. It does not matter if you don’t eat it. The big deal is to lose weight. After all, the calories in chocolate are Very tall, easy to gain weight
