In an interesting coincidence, I did contract some sort of horrendous gastrointestinal virus and have spent most of today either lying on the couch wishing I would throw up already, or running to the bathroom to throw up. However, MrWhatsit had the same problem yesterday, and did not (to his recollection) ingest any ants, dead or otherwise, so I think it’s unrelated.
For the record, the ants in question were pharaoh ants, which as far as I know are not poisonous, and the means of demise was falling into the glass of water. I will not be going so far as to throw a couple ants into my water glass in the future in order to provide “roughage”, but I think I will not worry about it much either.
One day when I was slacking and watching the discovery channel I saw a program about insects that stated if it weren’t for the taste, ants would be considered nature’s popcorn. Just thought I would share, I found it funny at the time.
My cubicle mug has lots of ant in it when i come for work in the morning. I just filter out them and drink the water. Been doing it for 3 years, and i’m seems to be doing great. I’m a lot fit now (well, i dont think the ant water had anything to do with it, though)
I also heard, eating ants are good for eyes, i dont know how scientifically accurate that is.
Ate some termites on a recent vacation. Yeah, not ants, and these were live, free-range beasts plucked off the nest, but never crossed my mind there would be a problem.
Don’t many processed foods have acceptable limits of insect parts?
When I was a kid in Africa and the flying ants swarmed, we used to collect scoops of them, fry them and eat them. For years I thought they tasted like peanuts (except with a bit of a sour tang) until I realised we’d been frying them in peanut oil.
If these were free range organically fed ants you’ll likely be ok. If these were your run of the mill ants produced by corporate breeders for mass consumption you’ll likely die of cancer.
