Someone told me that a lot of the ground coffee that you can buy contains particles of roaches. The roaches that had crawled into the coffee beans were ground up along with the beans. Is this true?
The person who told me this is a highly regarded intellectual from South America who loves coffee himself.
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No. That can't be true. First off, the FDA would not approve coffee if they found bug particles in it. Besides, roaches carry diseases sop everyone would be getting sick. I think this person who told you this is just trying to make you look bad for drinking coffee?? I don't know the situation.
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ReplyDeleteThis is very definitely not true. The coffee making process makes it impossible for such bodies to get into the coffee.
Coffee berries are harvested (often by hand) and then dried and hulled to get the beans from inside. These beans are sun dried and sorted to remove any bad beans and foreign bodies. Coffee is usually shipped in it's green (unroasted) form to coffee manufacturers where it is stored in silos. The coffee is then roasted and ground by the company before being packed and shipped to stores. At no point during this process is the coffee stored in a way that is accessible to the insects of any kind, and lots of steps are taken to ensure the quality and taste of coffee.
Whoever told you this is just trying to wind you up, don't pay them any attention.
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Etienne (& my team)
I think whoever told you that actually was getting it confused with chocolate.
ReplyDeleteDuring my trip to Hershey Pennsylvania, I had the chance to go through the Hershey Factory tour. They in fact confirmed that this is true, as it is entirely impossible to keep insects completely out of chocolate, and after looking up on the FDA's website it seems the same is true for coffee. There is however a detectable and acceptable level, that is harmless to humans.
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i would say yes. it could be possible. according to The Book of Lists, it named the dirtiest foods we eat. they are bread and flour,fig paste(Fig Newtons) and chocolate just to name a few. The FDA allows a certain amount of bugs,hair,rodent droppings and other things in your food. If you have ever cooked dry beans, and you soak them overnight, the water will be dirty and sometimes you can find small rocks in them. that's a 1Lb. bag. Multiply that buy 10 tons per week (manufacturer's usage) and that's a lot of dirt and rocks that can get by.
ReplyDeleteIt will contain anything that is in the coffee of the grinder....
ReplyDeleteFor those who doubt, the FDA has an allowable limit for "natural contaminants" such as insect parts in food.
ReplyDeleteIt may sound disgusting, but think how impossible it would be to keep the occasional stray ant or roach from getting into a warehouse storing tons of coffee, rice, beans, or wheat. Are you going to pay for someone to hand sort it before it goes into an air-tight container?
I've found dead bugs in the heads of lettuce. They are there in nature & we go through too much food to have the processor clean it. That's another reason why buying whole food & cleaning/processing it yourself is better than buying processed foods where the bug parts are blended inside.
Besides, the bugs are cooked by the time you consume them, so it's just a little extra protein. A Ohio Study estimates we eat (unintentionally) 1-2 pounds of insect each year. In some countries chocolate covered insects are a delicacy.
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