Jiangnan in June is the taste of bayberry
Especially in the Dragon Boat Festival, Zongzi is tired of eating sweet and sour bayonet, and it is absolutely ~
Since ancient times, the sweet and sour bayberry with rich juice has firmly occupied the top spot of summer fruits in the Jiangnan region.
Delicate bayberry is difficult to store after ripening. It will deteriorate after 2 days at room temperature. Therefore, in the era of underdeveloped preservation technology, bayberry is a delicacy that only a few people can enjoy.
This makes many literati rioters travel long distances in order to taste the taste of bayberry.
To this day, in order to chase the best 10 days of appreciation in early June every year, there are still many people who go there.
In recent years, bayberry has even become a "social currency". Whether someone sent Yangmei in June has become the criterion for judging whether a person is mixing well in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai.
Although it is a joke, it is enough to see the love of the people of Jiangnan for yangmei, after all, in the sweltering yellow plum day in Jiangnan, there is nothing more uplifting than the sour bayberry.
It may be that people are not many, and while Yangmei has embarked on the C position, it has also left a lot of controversy or rumors,
1 bayberry 6 worms, eat careful long parasites.
After washing the bayberry water has turned red, there must be pigment.
The insects of bayberry cannot be washed away, one insect at a time.
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But is this all true? Today, the rumor-busting jun will take everyone to find out.
Do bayberry really have worms?
Unfortunately, there are really worms in bayberry, and there are quite a few.
According to some network reviews, the vast majority of bayberry has insects, as few as one or two, more can reach nearly 10.
The insects in the bayberry have to start from the structure of the bayberry. Unlike common fruits with peels such as peaches, plums, and apricots, the edible part of bayberry is a soft and juicy columnar exocarp derived tissue.
In other words, what we've been eating is actually the peel of bayberry.
This unique structure is not only convenient for human consumption, but also convenient for insects such as fruit flies.
According to research published in Nature Metabolism, sugar is a necessity for the life of fruit flies, and if the sugar intake is reduced, fruit flies will not be able to lay eggs. So in order to ingest sugar, fruit flies chase after various sugary substances, as well as yeast.
For this reason, the bare-chested, sugar-rich bayberry is the best spawning place for fruit flies. Fruit flies break into the depths of bayberry and lay their eggs here during the annual arbutus season when it is about to ripen.
These eggs will be nourished by substances such as sugars and yeasts in bayberry, and gradually become white larvae, which is what we usually call maggots.
But the bayberry is so delicious, can't it be removed?
Really can't.
The time of fruit fly invasion is mostly close to the ripening season of bayberry, and if this will be repelled by insecticides, it will bury a great food safety hazard because of the residual insecticide.
So using insecticides to drive away fruit flies on bayberry does not work.
In order to reduce the damage of fruit flies to bayberry, agricultural technicians will use some non-chemical means to control insects, such as bagging, weeding, cleaning rotten fruit leaves, etc.
But no matter how hard they tried, most of the fruit flies still camped in Bayberry, and as they were picked and transported, they walked from the fields into our fruit plates.
How can insects be eaten? Will it grow parasites?
Fruit fly larvae are clean, non-contagious, and non-parasitic.
As mentioned earlier, the main food of fruit flies is rotten fruits, plants, and fungi such as yeast. Compared with mosquitoes, flies and other pests, it is still relatively clean.
Fruit fly larvae, which grow in bayberry from birth, are cleaner. From hatching, these fruit fly larvae survive on the sugar and yeast in bayberry, and some even live in extremely clean and oxygen-free environments.
Therefore, from this point of view, fruit fly larvae are basically not exposed to pathogenic bacteria.
Do fruit fly larvae parasitize the body?
This is also unlikely. The temperature at which fruit flies can survive is 8-33 ° C, of which the most suitable temperature is 25 ° C, and when it is above 33 ° C, the flies will gradually die. Therefore, in humans with an average body temperature above 36 ° C, fruit flies cannot survive.
Moreover, when the fruit fly enters the stomach with the digestive tract, it cannot live in stomach acid, and its final outcome can only be digested and absorbed as protein.
There is no need to worry about fruit fly larvae parasitizing our bodies and competing with us for nutrition.
Therefore, whether from a contagious or parasitic point of view, eating fruit flies by mistake when eating bayberry will not have any negative impact on our body.
If you are really unfortunate to encounter white and tender fruit fly larvae, you should add a protein to the meal, and don't think about it
After washing the bayberry water is red, I am afraid that there is pigment?
Yes, there are pigments.
But the pigment in bayberry is a water-soluble natural pigment in plants - anthocyanins.
Anthocyanins are usually stored in plant cell vacuoles, and when the cells break, these colored natural pigments dissolve into the water and stain the water.
In fact, anthocyanins are widely present in plants, and the common blueberries, strawberries, cherries, mulberries, purple potatoes, grapes, blood oranges, eggplants, etc. in life all contain a certain degree of anthocyanins.
And as the research progressed, researchers found that anthocyanins are a potent antioxidant that can scavenge excess free radicals.
In recent years, anthocyanins have been widely added to foods as nutritional enhancers.
How to wash the bayberry?
Soak in salt water.
Although it is said that the larvae in bayberry will not cause damage to the human body. However, if you eat it, it will still cause sensory discomfort. So the best way is to wash it before eating.
The delicate bayberry is obviously not suitable for rubbing by hand, let alone detergent. So the best way to clean it is to soak it in salt water.
Salt can not only force fruit fly larvae out of the bayberry, but also make the bayberry taste better and more palatable.
The above is today's content, I hope to dispel your concerns about bayberry.
These two days are the season of bayberry, go buy it and try it
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