The rice I just bought is crystal clear, and there are obviously no insects, but why doesn't it take long for many bugs to be born? In fact, most of the insects born of rice are rice weevils, this insect does not appear out of thin air, but the rice you buy itself carries insect eggs, so the question is, is the rice incense usually said to be rice instead of meat? Today, let's take a look at it with Xiaobian, like and pay attention, and never get lost.
First of all, let's first understand this insect, if we take a magnifying glass and look closely, we will find that the head of these small bugs has a long elephant trunk, which looks very similar to an elephant, so according to the custom of our Chinese name, we will call it a rice weevil, it is a completely metamorphosed insect, insects are divided into complete metamorphosis and incomplete metamorphosis, some organisms in the development process, morphology and structure will undergo different degrees of changes, incomplete metamorphosis is exopods, all complete metamorphosis is endophytic wing, etc All rice worms belong to the latter, and the growth of rice weevils will go through four stages, such as eggs, larvae, pupae and adult insects, and the rice worms we usually see are the appearance of its adults.
In fact, when the rice is about to ripen, the rice weevil begins to nibble on the rice grains, and then makes a warm nest, and then secretes mucus after laying the eggs, seals the warm nests, and the eggs are born unconsciously in the rice grains. And from the outside rough point of view, almost can not see the flaw, although the rice processing will kill most of the eggs, but because the eggs are about 0.6 to 0.7 mm long, about 0.28 to 0.29 mm wide, processing will often have fish that slip through the net, it is difficult to kill completely, the outer rice packaging and transportation is simple, once the source of the insect is encountered, it will also cause secondary contamination and transmission, when the environmental temperature of storing rice reaches 20 to 40 degrees, the humidity reaches 65%-75%, and the eggs will hatch into larvae in just one week. After seven to ten days of incubation, the adult worms with a length of about three millimeters will feather out, and the rice elephant larvae have a more effective protective color at all stages, plus the reproductive ability of the rice elephant worm is metamorphosed, which can lay about 500 eggs at a time, and the breeding cycle is short, the breeding generation is about 20 to 50 days, the higher the temperature, the faster the reproduction rate, especially in the humid and hot southern region, the rice weevil can even reach seven generations a year.
So, can rice eroded by rice weevils still be eaten? Is eating rice with insect eggs harmful to the body? At this point, you can rest assured, although the rice worm crawls around on the rice, it looks very disgusting, but the rice worm is different from the bugs we usually see, carrying a variety of bacteria, the rice worm has been staying in the rice since the beginning of the egg, the environment has been very simple, so it has no poison, there is no bacteria, the secretions are not poisonous, the food that has been harmed by them is completely assured in terms of safety, but from a cautious point of view, but when you are looking for rice, it is best to clean it, Because the grains of rice that have been mothed by insects will float up because the surface tension of the water cannot infiltrate the pores. Even if science tells you that this will not affect your health, you will still not be able to pass that level psychologically, so if you want to avoid adult rice elephants, we can start from these aspects. First of all, when buying rice, we should pay attention to the production date, in general, although no matter which period of rice will have worm eggs, but the probability of rice weevil hatching in Chen rice is obviously higher than that of new rice, after knowing this, we have to change the habit of hoarding goods, the best advice is to purchase rice every half a month or a month according to their own consumption, another point is to pay attention to our storage environment, although the rice weevil looks strong reproductive ability, the cycle is short, but it has requirements for the environment, If we say that we are not good at controlling the temperature of the rice box, then we should keep the storage environment as dry as possible.
What should we do if rice weevils have appeared in the rice at home? Many people have a knowledge misunderstanding, think that sunlight can kill insects, so when the rice at home has insects and is not serious, it will habitually take the rice to the sun to dry, but in fact, this method is not useful for rice weevils, unless the particularly strong sunlight is directly exposed to rice for a long time, otherwise the lethality of rice weevils is very limited, and rice in the drying process will also cause many light-afraid bugs to drill into the inside of rice, destroying the texture of rice for the second time. Once the rice has a small black worm, we can put the rice in the freezer to freeze for a night, the next day take out the weight will be all frozen to death, when we cook rice, just use water, more than a few times the black worms will float on the water, then pour off the bugs, do not have to spend time to pick rice worms, but this method may miss some of the eggs. Do you think that the rice flavor that is usually said is really rice flavor rather than meat aroma? Welcome to discuss in the comments section, we will see you in the next issue!