"Ten percent of the weight of a two-year-old pillow can be composed of dead mites and their droppings"
"About 80 percent of the material seen floating in a sunbeam is, in fact, flakes of dead skin"
https://www.livescience.com/33097-does-your-mattress-really-gain-weight-over-time-.html
Also,
"The 16-ounce jar of peanut butter in your pantry can contain up to 136 insect parts"
"the average 4.4-ounce chocolate bar may have up to 74 insect fragments"
"Cockroach parts are among the most common contaminants found in chocolate"
"The FDA legally allows up to 225 insect fragments per 225 grams of pasta"
"Insects usually find their way into pasta through wheat, which can contain up to 75 insect parts per 50 grams (about 1/4 cup)"
"As you sip on that steaming-hot cup of coffee, you might also be drinking around 120 insect parts... there could be fecal matter in your coffee, too"
"one cup of raisins can have up to 35 fruit fly eggs and ten whole insects"
"a 3.5-ounce can of mushrooms contains 19 maggots and 74 mites"
"The FDA allows up to 60 (aphids) per 100 grams of frozen broccoli"
"A 14.5-ounce can of tomatoes must have more than 8 fly eggs or one maggot"
"canned fruit juices can safely contain pieces of one maggot for every 250-milliliter sample"
"up to 475 bug parts can end up in 50 grams (or 1/4 cup) of ground pepper"
"FDA allows up to 400 insect fragments per 50 grams (or 1/4 cup) of cinnamon"
"Just a few helpings of sauerkraut could contain up to 50 small, stick-like critters called thrips"
"FDA allows up to four larvae or ten whole insects per 500 grams of berries, or about 2.5 cups"
https://www.rd.com/list/foods-secretly-contain-insects/
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