The disgusting thing you didn't know is in the figs you eat
The fig contains high nutritional values such as vitamin C, B vitamins, calcium, iron and potassium - but it turns out that there is a reason that vegetarians and vegans prefer to avoid eating it.
In fact, after you find out what else it contains - you will probably prefer to give up too.
Oh, and she's not the only one on the list
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31/07/2022
Sunday, July 31, 2022, 11:44 p.m. Updated: 11:45 p.m.
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A visit to the Yakir Fig Orchard in Binyamina (photo: Ido Shaham, editing: Ran Tzimat)
You probably already know that the gelatin from which our favorite gummies are made is made from fish bones or pig/beef bones and skin - and you've probably also read that pre-ground coffee beans may contain cockroaches - but did you know what goes on inside the incredibly sweet and juicy fig fruit?
If you like this fruit, you should stop reading here.
We begin by saying that the fig, one of our seven species, is actually not a fruit but a flower.
Since it blooms inside a shell that does not allow it to reproduce in the traditional way of pollination - the fig reproduces through wasps, which use it to lay their eggs.
When the wasp enters the fig through a tiny opening at the bottom, it usually remains stuck there.
That means the figs you eat may contain a dead wasp.
We told you not to keep reading.
Before you give up the fruit for good - we have good news.
The likelihood that you will eat a fig that contains small disintegrated wasp proteins.
First, we mostly eat the female figs, while the wasps lay their eggs in the fruits of the male trees.
Second, the figs that are usually sold in the market reproduce by self-pollination and without wasps.
Therefore, your chance of eating one with a wasp is mainly if you eat figs straight from the tree.
Here are some more things you didn't know about the foods you eat:
1. Fruit flies love tomato sauce and tend to lay their eggs in it.
The FDA has restrictions that allow no more than 15 fly eggs and one maggot per 100 grams of sauce.
2. The vanilla flavor in certain foods comes from a liquid secretion produced in a gland in the anus area of beavers.
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3. In a regular jar of peanut butter, which contains about 450 grams, the Food and Drug Administration allows there to be up to 136 insect particles and up to 4 rodent hairs.
4. A bag of raisins containing about 400 grams can contain up to 65 fly eggs.
5. Research found human DNA in hot dogs.
About 2 percent of our hot dogs may contain residues of human hair, skin and nails.
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6. According to the US Food and Drug Administration, 680 grams of flour can contain up to 13 pieces of rat feces.
7. Ground spices may contain traces of "foreign matter" - sticks, stones, jute fibers and cigarette butts.
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