Produced by | Sohu Health
Author | Wu Shi Nan
Edit | Yuan Yue
A cup of coffee a day has become a daily routine for many office workers, smelling the strong smell of coffee, and the fatigue of getting up early is instantly dispelled. But if coffee contains cockroach "stumps," will you still love it?
Recently, on a well-known foreign short video platform, a doctor from the British National Health Service (NHS) Karan Raj broke the news: the ground coffee beans contain cockroaches or other insect fragments!
In an instant, netizens fried the pan!
what? Am I drinking cockroaches every day?
Don't scare me, I'm most afraid of cockroaches!
Drinking coffee with cockroaches, will I be poisoned?
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After being stunned, the netizens who returned to the gods could not help but ask: Why are there cockroaches and other insects in the coffee? Is it that the food hygiene is not good?
Karan Raj said that this is not artificial, nor is it to improve the taste of coffee, but the insect just happened to enter the bag of coffee beans. "Most pre-ground coffees bought in stores will contain a certain amount of cockroaches, [because] some of the beans are contaminated with cockroaches and other insects and usually can't be completely disposed of. So they were roasted and ground along with the coffee beans. ”
In fact, it is not a "secret" that coffee contains insect fragments, but few people pay attention to it. Studies conducted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have shown that as many as 10 percent of green coffee beans are contaminated by cockroaches drinking other insects. Food regulatory agencies such as the FDA allow coffee to contain a certain amount of insect residue, as long as it does not exceed a certain percentage, it is qualified.
Does drinking cockroach-containing coffee have an effect on the body?
"It's completely safe to eat." Karan Raj said in the video that cockroaches are high in protein, drinking it will not have any effect on the body, and also increased additional protein intake.
However, according to Zhong Kai, deputy director of the Food and Nutrition Information Exchange Center of Kexin and a doctor of food safety, the possibility of cockroaches or insect "stumps" mixed in coffee is very small.
First of all, as an agricultural product, coffee goes through n processes from the plantation to the hands of consumers, including the process of planting, harvesting, fermentation, drying, storage and other processes of coffee beans, but the most common insect pests of coffee beans are tianniu and cockroaches instead of cockroaches. Therefore, the probability of mixing cockroaches in coffee beans is very low. Secondly, the storage and processing process of coffee beans also has multiple processes that will remove foreign matter and impurities, although it is not guaranteed to be 100% removed, but the probability of insect mixing has been greatly reduced. Even if there are insects mixed in, they become sterile high-quality proteins after being roasted at high temperatures.
Of course, if it is really difficult to accept the tiny insect "stumps" that may be contained in coffee, try not to buy pre-ground coffee powder, and choose freshly ground coffee.
But then again, cockroaches have been regarded as a kind of "food", do you still use the "stumps" that are not visible in coffee?