10 gross food facts you wish you never knew

Feeling hungry? Well, you won’t be hungry anymore after reading this article! We are often advised not to eat junk or processed food items, but for your information, the food items you consider the healthiest also have some sort of gross facts that will stop you from eating them again. You might think that you know all about the food you are eating, but the reality is a little bit different and we are here to present that to you! The gross stuff present in your favourite food may not make you sick but thinking about them can definitely make you sick, very sorry about that! If you still want to read the gross food facts, you may scroll down to find 10 of them:

Oregano can contain up to 1,250 insect parts per 10 grams, legally. Not to forget that on an average, 300 insect fragments are generally present in oregano. Now, pizza tastes delicious without oregano.

1 mg of animal faeces are present in every 450 grams of cinnamon. Do you still want cinnamon powder on your desserts? We bet you don’t!

Dry fruits are healthy and every doctor must have recommended you to consume dry fruits daily. But how healthy are they? Studies have shown that there is 40 mg of sand and grits in 100 grams of raisins. Looks like dry fruits aren’t healthy anymore!

Wheat is like the key ingredient of almost all the main dishes, especially in India. But you never knew that there is 9 mg of rodent poo present in 1 kg of wheat. Time to throw out the bread, muffin and everything!

Peanut butter and jelly (PB&J) sandwiches are always on the menu for all kinds of get-together. But you won’t have a single clue that you can find one rodent hair in every 100 grams of peanut butter. Now, you won’t be craving PB&J anymore!

Jelly beans are so yummy and they look so beautiful. Jelly beans are coated with shellac to make them glossy and look more attractive to the kids. Shellac is a substance that is made with excretions of female Lac insect and is generally used as a finishing product to improve the shine of the wooden furniture.

Marshmallows taste delicious, right? But do you really know how they are made? Earlier, plant products were used to make them but now they are made with gelatin. If you are thinking what’s gross in that, then read on. Gelatin is made by boiling down the skin and bones of pigs or cows.

Do you know that the chicken momos that you just bought from the roadside stall may contain dog meat in it? Yes, a lot of researches have found out that vendors in Delhi are selling dog meat in momos and even if it is not dog meat, it can be rotten chicken! We hope you are not planning to have momos this evening.

Are you one of those who loves drinking beer? After reading this fact, you won’t be a fan anymore. Beer contains isinglass (a type of gelatin) which helps in making the beer more clear. Isinglass comes from dried fish bladders.

Several studies have found out that on an average, a fast food consumer consumes 12 pubic hair a year. Now, that was a hairy fact. If you are still not grossed out then we wonder what on earth can make you sick?