Eeeeew! We’re eating WHAT??!

OK, this one's going to gross you out, but there are bugs in your food! You might be drinking milk from cloned cows! The blue in that blueberry granola bar probably came from a dye!

In our June issue, our story "Top 10 Food Shockers: What the labels won't tell you" reveals 10 surprising things about the food you buy and eat every day.

For instance, did you know that a 24-ounce container of cornmeal can have up to 13 insects, 745 insect fragments, and 27 rodent hairs in it, according to the Food and Drug Administration? And yet, according to Bob Gravani, Ph.D., professor of food science at Cornell University, "Generally, these defects, including rodent filth, insects, or mold, are not hazardous to health at low levels," says. Most companies work hard to keep defects to a minimum, he says. Unappetizing, yes; dangerous, usually not.

How about color of that strawberry shake from McDonald's? Pink? Really? Nope. Red dye No. 40. In Britain that same shake is colored by concentrated beetroot juice, because the British government has asked food makers to stop using certain synthetic dyes in most products, and the European Union requires that most food containing dyes have a warning label stating that the food "may have an adverse affect on activity and attention in children." Whew.

So the bottom line is you don't have to worry too much—there's going to be stuff in your food that you don't want to know about. Sometimes ignorance is bliss. But you can shop for organic products, learn to read labels, choose alternatives to canned foods, buy local.

Read our story in the June issue, on newsstands now, to see our list of the 10 food shockers we found, and how to deal with them.