13 Popular Foods in Minnesota That Might Contain Insects (and It’s Totally Legal)

You've probably heard about people finding bugs in their food or worse, non-food items inside something they just bought to eat.  If you don't believe that this is happening, I myself have opened up a can of green beans and a very large bug was inside.

Some of us have trust issues...and they are valid. Case in point, I have never bought that brand of green beans again and I never will.  My trust with that manufacturer is gone.

Keep reading, you may start to have trust issues too...because I'm about to open the lid on a secret about the foods sitting in your refrigerator and cupboards.

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13 Foods Sold in Minnesota That Secretly Have Bugs and Insects In Them

According to Gallup, 28% of us have lost confidence in our government's ability to help keep our food safe.  A study in 2022 by Pew Research Center found an even higher number - 44% of Americans worry a fair amount or a great deal about the safety of our food supply.

Food recalls posted on the FDA.gov have quite a few items listed with mislabeled ingredients or that accidentally contain broken pieces of plastic or rocks.

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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, every year in the United States, about 48 million people get sick from foodborne illnesses.

And then, there is a whole other issue that no one wants to talk about...bugs in our food.

The truth is, there are quite a few items that we eat every day that are considered "safe" to eat by our government, even though a percentage of bugs have been found in them.  And...this isn't chocolate-covered crickets that you decided to eat on a dare.  Our government has allowed food to be sold with these parameters.