How much bee involvement are there in each of the things we eat? I've done a couple of experiments and found some quite shocking results. For example, Innocent Smoothie's Blackberrys Strawberries & Boysenberries flavour's ingredients are 3 pressed apples (40%) 2 bananas, 19 grapes (9%), 6 strawberries (9%), 22 crushed blackberries (9%), 17 crushed boysenberries (8%), 3/4 of squeezed orange, 9 crushed blackcurrants (4%), and a dash of lime (1.5%).
This equals more than 70% of the ingredients are pollinated by bees. How will these companies survive when the bee population is forecasted to be extinct by 2035?
I guess innocent smoothies aren't as innocent as they apprear. They've all a huge bee footprint in each product.
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