Just open a ready to bake puff pastry to make a tomato tart, but found an insect should I bin it?

[teaandcake32]

No idea if the insect came from the puff pastry or not but I saw it as soon as I'd opened the puff pastry.

Just googled and came across weevils.

Yes, you should bin it.

If you don't want to use it I'd return to where you bought it. Weevils are usually in flour as in the dry bags of it, not so much in flour products as such.

No way I'd be eating that
Bin it

If you cook it, the insect will be very dead. Just think of it as added protein

Surprised you needed to even ask about it😱

Weevils are tiny, like a black dot. They live in dried flour etc, not ready made pastry usually. If there really only was one insect I'd probably remove the part around it and still use it to be honest. Literally one weevil that's been cooked already can't really do much even if you did eat it!

Depends whether you're vegetarian.

Yes, it's fine. Most people around the world eat insects. We are just a bit funny about it but technically there is no reason to be.

Well, I'd probably bin the insect.

Joking apart, if it is only one insect, not some unfeasibly large one, and you're not certain it was in with pastry, I would probably cook it.

Just eat it. It is extra protein 😂

If it's just the one I'd cut/pick it off and bake as normal.

Agree with pp though, weevils are VERY tiny and I'd certainly struggle to spot just one!

I'm veggie. I'd just pick the insect off and get on with cooking.
You don't know that it was on the pastry, half the pastry is wrapped anyway with the ready-roll products and you're going to cook it.

If you think about what food has experienced before it finally gets to us a single insect really isn't an issue.

I'd eat it. Wouldn't even think twice!

Can we have photo please?

(Include a banana for scale, thanks muchly)

This. There is an expected allowance for insect contamination in food products that are grown. For flour I think it's 3%? Could be wrong on that but yes we eat insects every single day without even realising it.