Doctor warns there could be insect bits in your ground coffee

If you spend a bit of time on social media networking app TikTok, there is a high chance you may have landed on some of the shocking yet educational content from Dr Karan Raj.

He has made a name for himself on the app for his quirky way of educating users with some interesting facts. In his latest video, Dr Raj shocks users by sharing a fact we don’t want to know.

The surgical doctor is trending on the app after he shared that it is likely that our ground coffee beans include a small percentage of cockroaches and other insect bits (yes, you read that right). 

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Dr Raj admits that the coffee companies don’t add any insect bits into the coffee on purpose, but the reality is that insects just happen to get into coffee bean bags.

According to the Food and Drug Administration, there have been studies which showed that up to 10% of green coffee beans can become infested with roaches and other insects. The issue comes in the grinding stage as coffee farmers and roasters aren’t able to process them out completely, so they just get roasted and ground up with the beans.

Health organisations around the world allow a certain amount of bug parts in our food as long as it doesn’t exceed a certain percentage. Dr Raj says that this isn’t something to freak out about – it’s safe to consume the insects. In fact, he jokes, saying that it’s just an extra protein boost.

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Viewers couldn’t believe that they, realistically, consumed a bunch of cockroaches over the years.

“You’re telling me I have been drinking the very thing I am terrified of my entire life!??” one user wrote. Another added: “Okay dude some information you do not need to tell us, we are all coffee drinkers how dare you ruin our coffee in the morning’. A third said: ‘I really didn’t need this kid of negativity before going to sleep #fml”

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