Bayberry is one of the seasonal fruits in summer, especially in hot weather, you can eat sweet and sour bayberry, promote appetite and clear heat. However, many consumers have recently found that there are many "little white worms" crawling on the bayberry, especially after soaking in salt water.
For this phenomenon, the circle of friends have spread, and there is a saying that "eating a bayberry is equivalent to eating a lot of parasites", which makes people feel afraid, and the bayberry just bought has "small white worms" What is going on?
Some people buy back the bayberry, directly wash it with running water and eat it, without seeing any trace of small white insects. Others will be more cautious and soak with salt water or baking soda (lye water).
Through experiments, it was learned that the probability of soaking white worms with clear water is small, and 6 white worms appear more than soaking in water, and the soaking effect of soda water is significant than that of water, but it is not as good as salt water. And these white worms are not pathogenic bacteria, and the owners of many fruit shops have said that the appearance of white worms in bayberry is a normal growth phenomenon of bayberry.
In fact, they are all larvae of fruit flies, do not carry pathogenic bacteria, and become the host of parasites. Fruit fly larvae mainly feed on fruits, not only bayberry, but also white worms are easy to see when buying cherries and cherries in the pulp or outside.
While other common fruits, such as apples and pears, bugs are usually on the surface of the fruit, but don't worry. Even if you eat it accidentally, it will not pose a health threat, and may also help the body to replenish some protein. However, it is safer to avoid the accumulation of bacteria and dust inside the bayberry, and the bayberry bought at home can be eaten after soaking it in salt water for fifteen minutes.
In addition, washing with salt water can also improve the sweetness of bayberry, which is a one-stroke approach. It should be reminded that the summer weather is hot, and bacteria and pathogens like humid and high temperature environments.
Do not soak the bayberry for a long time, it is easy to increase the chance of bacteria breeding, in this case, even if it is not because of small white insects, it will also be because of bacteria and food poisoning. In terms of nutrition, it is also easy to lose part of the water-soluble vitamin C and vitamin B groups.
Therefore, soaking arbutus and other fruits should not exceed 15 minutes at the longest, and eating 2 to 3 bayberry before summer meals has the effect of appetizing and quenching thirst. In the "Compendium of Materia Medica", it is recorded that bayberry smells sour, sweet, warm, non-toxic, into the liver, heart, spleen, used to help digestion, promote appetite, relieve heat and cool down.
Because bayberry is more acidic, if you have recently often nausea, or have stomach ulcers, indigestion, etc., it is advisable to avoid the stimulation of the arbutus on the stomach and intestines.
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