Are Weevils/Mites Ok To Ingest?

tiggerblue10 | 16:54 Fri 27th Mar 2020 | ChatterBank

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jazzyjen

They won’t kill you, but don’t make a habit of it.
Plenty of people around the world seem happy to eat insects.

tiggerblue10

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Was making a tuna pasta bake and I could see some in the flour. Poured it out into a bowl and used the flour at top which was at the bottom of the bag. Didn't look like there were any there but just in case.......!

Patsy33

Absolutely fine! Carry on... :-)

Old_Geezer

It'd put me off eating it, but I doubt they'd cause any real issue if you didn't let on.

tiggerblue10

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Cheers :o)

tiggerblue10

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Cheese sauce done and now in oven so if there was any, they'd be dead as a Dodo. Extra protein I guess.

SparklyKid

Very odd that a bag of flour if left for while produces these critters, seemingly out of no9where.

bookbinder

https://preppingplanet.com/weevils-in-flour-safe-to-eat/

SparklyKid

Weird ??

sanmac

I can't cotton on to the notion that you would want to ingest weevils.

ladybirder

If the flour is out of date then that is can happen to it. This tells you how to deal with them.
https://www.wikihow.com/Get-Rid-of-Weevils-(Flour-Bugs)

Ken4155

Just been reading about them. Harmless unless you're scoffing them by the bucketful. Quite shy creatures, too. Aw, bless :-))
Tigger; if you see any wormlike creatures sliding up and down the wall where you keep your food, you may be infested with them. Otherwise, they were probably just in the flour.

tiggerblue10

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I had them in some flour over 6 months ago and got rid of everything and cleaned area. I wanted to make the bake so it could feed the 2 of us over the next few days and also as going out to buy a new bag of flour is pretty much impossible at present.

Hope both weevils and their offspring are well and truly dead with the cooking process. Will throw the rest of the flour away :o)