The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it!

After cocoa beans are harvested they need to be fermented. This means that they are put in an earthen pit near where they are harvested and covered with leaves. In the hot sun they ferment (rot) and then can be shoveled out as mature cocoa beans. Of course during this process lots of insects are present.

Almost all chocolate have bugs in it, because it is too expensive to manufacture without bugs. The FDA allows a certain amount of bugs or animal in most foods you eat. Almost all manufactured food you eat comes with an animal you won't think would be in it.

Cottage cheese is allowed to have 10 fecal coliforms / gram (fecal coliform being bacteria like Escherichia coli that is normally associated with human and animal feces). Doesn't mean that it will hurt you either.
Written by Mohammad Hijazi

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Comments

Anonymous said…
Eww! I never want to eat chocolate again! Gross!
Anonymous said…
O_O

I'm completely terrified of food now.
Jay said…
I did NOT have to know that!
Anonymous said…
OMFG
"because it is too expensive to manufacture without bugs"

I say i dont care about price as long as I know hwatsin it no surprise ladybug please lol
Anonymous said…
And they eating worms is nasty....hahaha. So gross.
Kai said…
I'm vego! now I can't eat choc again! oh no
Anonymous said…
i loved chocolate to the max. until 5 seconds ago. i now officially declare thaat i will never eat chocolate ever in my entire life. yucks...gross.. shouldn't hav came here in the 1st place..
Anonymous said…
Youre gay
Anonymous said…
If I could "like" your reply I would
phuong anh said…
ewww! i wont eat choc again. omg. too expensive to manufacture without bugs???? thinking back choc i ate n how many times i ate really made me sick. good bye choc from now. oh my. horrible.
Anonymous said…
Yeah You Should'nt Have Read It Noow I'm Scared Of Food
Anonymous said…
That is nasty as fuck! What if somebody gets AIDS?! I not eating chocolate anymore and I'm not gonna eat cottage cheese. Why would anybody put shit in cheese! Aaack!
Anonymous said…
Uhhh the fact that cottage cheese can have E coli is worse than the chocolate w/ bug legs
Anonymous said…
Douche
Gaby said…
I WILL STILL EAT EVERYTHING. Consider it extra protein.
Anonymous said…
Are you people really that thick? "omfg"? "lol". Illiterate baffoons. ????
Anonymous said…
All these Spastics saying "omg I'm never eating chocolate again!". Bunch of Saps!. Has eating chocolate ever made you sick before reading this..no. So why change. Bear Grylls says insects are high in protein so its good for you. (not that i eat insects intentionally)In saying that you may as well stop eating or drinking altogether cause you'd be surprised what is really hidden in most of the food you eat. Some people just need to drop kicked.
Anonymous said…
AIDS from eating chocolate!!! What a douche!!! Not possible retard!!!!!
Unknown said…
fuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk youuuuuuuuu
Anonymous said…
imbeciles
Rinasparkle said…
ewwww im sure ill still eat it lol
Anonymous said…
How is it gross you would of ate the chocolate no matter what
Anonymous said…
By the way, you dont even taste 'em!
Anonymous said…
As long as I don't taste it or hear an unfamiliar crunch, I'm fine.
Anonymous said…
Who knows? Maybe insect legs are nutritious for you. *Long silence*...nah.
Esther said…
I WILL STILL EAT CHOCOLATE!in fact,i think ill buy them right now XD
Anonymous said…
we are going to die some day might as well enjoy it with something sweet in our tummys. Don't you agree?
Anonymous said…
ur a wussy
Anonymous said…
I came here because I FOUND A HUGE MOTHERFUCKING INSECT in my chocolate bar just before a few minutes...like wtf it came from it was all the time in the fridge so I guess chocolates does have bugs in it !!! fucking more disgusting than cockroaches !!
Anonymous said…
the creepy thing is I will still eat chocolate...but feel a little bit more sick each time I do!
Unknown said…
Ill eat chocolate chocolate covered anything bugs.. pussy .. Titties . . every mother fuckin thing
Bunch of fuckin idiots

mmmmmmmmmmmm I just love chocolate . . .
Anonymous said…
stop being a fucking twat.
Anonymous said…
I like cupcakes
Unknown said…
it's gross knowing now that's in it ! wow it's ok for me as I don't eat much chocolate ,
Anonymous said…
it terrible but as long as I don't here it again am pretty much thine
Anonymous said…
lol but thats just sooo crazy i mean really i would just pay more for nothing in the candy instead of legs and crap in it
Anonymous said…
Crunch bars anyone
Anonymous said…
uhhh
Anonymous said…
IKR! That's what I'm sayin'! *high fives* Like Totally Gross! But Chocolate's Chocolate; there's no other way around it. 😋
Anonymous said…
*Strangely Agrees*
Anonymous said…
Seriously? *Rolls Eyes.*
Anonymous said…
*Laughs* Quite oddly I'm agreeing to agree with you
Anonymous said…
Hahahaha Awesome Sauce!!!!!!!!
Anonymous said…
arte mo! if anyone see you eating chocolates, you will have a lifetime stomach ache! #@%$%#^!!!
Unknown said…
insects have protein and plus the insect legs are probably really small so you wouldn't notice anyway, besides some people eat ants. so what's the big deal about a few little insects legs. but if someone was so worried as to have insects in their chocolate why not make your own at home, get a couple of cocoa tree's, let the beans ferment in an insect free environment somewhere on your property or in your house blah, blah , anyone else think this is possible?
Unknown said…
well you can eat some ants, and insects have protein so its not such a big deal. although most or all insects may be disgusting to many people some or most of them can be eaten and to be honest its not that different from eating other animals for example, there's a sea creature (I think it was a lobster or a crab) that's exoskeleton can be eaten, so its kind of the same as eating seafood and most people like to eat seafood so if your disgusted by the thought of having bugs in your chocolate jUsT iMaGiNe SoMe DeLiCiOuS cRuNcHy SaLtY ExOsKeLeToN cRaCkInG iN yOuR mOuTh MMMmMMMmMMMmmMmMm..

enjoy your Easter eggs. (tomorrows Easter from today) hope this helps *crunch* *crunch* mmm I love chocolate......*cruuuuunch*
Anonymous said…
Well it's good for you
Anonymous said…
can it be any worse than a guy spitting / wiping snot on your burger in maccy d's ? ........ ile have the legs anyday
Anonymous said…
How are we really calculating the number of bugs... I mean really, its just like you swallow spiders in your sleep... believe what you want or shut up
Anonymous said…
Wait…if there are only insect legs in the chocolate, where does the rest of the insect go? *slightly paranoid*
Anonymous said…
that's very disqusting I'm never gonna eat chocolate agin
Anonymous said…
I live for chocolate ain't nothin stopping me from eating CHOCOLATE!!!!
Unknown said…
I've stopped eating it long ago when I heard this, I just can't. I'm running out of foods lol everytime I google and get more info. I just need to stop lol.