Is It Safe To Eat Damaged Vegetables From The Garden?

About a third of global food production is wasted. Fruits and vegetables are harmed. In your garden, you may be throwing away imperfect or damaged veggies. In our perfection-focused culture,

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Eating Damaged Fruits and Vegetable

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Can you Eat Vegetables that Have Been Eaten by Bugs?

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Damage That is Safe to Eat

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Damaged Fruits and Vegetables You Shouldn't Eat

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Large or many-holed produce is suspicious. This may not be insect-related. The hole may be equipment, weather, or harvesting injury.

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Is It Safe To Eat Damaged Vegetables From The Garden?

About a third of global food production is wasted. Fruits and vegetables are harmed. In your garden, you may be throwing away imperfect or damaged veggies. In our perfection-focused culture,

Eating Damaged Fruits and Vegetable

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Some home gardeners are so excited to harvest their first crops that they don't mind a few bug-eaten veggies. Some discard pest-damaged crops, while others cut around them and consume them.

Can you Eat Vegetables that Have Been Eaten by Bugs?

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Insect-damaged produce warrants further scrutiny. If there are few holes and no nibbler, it is probably safe to eat.

Damage That is Safe to Eat

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It may surprise you that the FDA limits food bug counts. They set maximum amounts of inherent or unavoidable faults in human-eaten food.

Damaged Fruits and Vegetables You Shouldn't Eat

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Produce that looks rat or rabbit-eaten should be avoided. Let rabbits have it. The same goes for bird-pecked or pooped produce. Questionable scat evidence.

Large or many-holed produce is suspicious. This may not be insect-related. The hole may be equipment, weather, or harvesting injury.

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