It is edible and won’t kill you. It will taste disgusting though, besides the quite understandable visual and sensory impact
Personal experience of the taste from cooking rice that had a weevil or two turn up in it even after I thought I’d washed it thoroughly. What can I say, I was much thriftier then when I was younger and living alone. --srs ________________________________ From: Huda Masood <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2025 6:47:46 PM To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]> Cc: Intelligent conversation <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Silk] Worms in my flour Let’s standardise the test parameter - this would be an augmented source of nutrition? I wonder about areas of famine and unrest and I wonder what degrades from a nutritional standpoint and what gets enhanced. I remember an anecdote about sailors eating their bread in the dark so they wouldn’t have to see the worms. Huda Masood +91 9886796967 On Thu, 23 Oct 2025 at 15:06, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Patrick O’Brian’s lesser of two weevils comes to mind. They’re protein and safe to eat once cooked but they taste disgustingly bitter. --srs ________________________________ From: Silklist <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Huda Masood via Silklist <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2025 6:26:25 PM To: Intelligent conversation <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Cc: Huda Masood <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: [Silk] Worms in my flour Folks, I’ve been wondering. Would the wriggly larva in my flour actually enhance the nutritional value of the flour as a whole? The whole conversion of starch to Protein thought process. What happens when the larva poops? Huda Masood +91 9886796967
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