At the beginning of summer, it is time for many people's favorite bayberry to go on the market. Sweet and sour, it can be said to be one of the most attractive fruits of this season.
But there are always some sayings that make us discouraged from these sweet and sour fruits...
There are small bugs in the bayberry, and eating one bayberry is equivalent to eating 10 worms
Bayberry is too red is dyed, washed will fade;
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So these statements, which look very scary, are they true or false?
1, eat a bayberry = 10 bugs?
Bayberry does have insects, but it doesn't affect us from eating it.
When we soak the bayberry in household salt water, the small bugs that run out of it are actually fruit fly larvae. This is mainly because bayberry has no protection from the peel, and the flesh itself is tender and juicy, once ripe and soft, the bright color and fragrant smell can easily attract fruit flies to lay eggs.
However, the fruit flies during the larval period, themselves eat the flesh of the fruit, do not carry germs, eat it is not harmful to the human body, and there is a complete existence of maggots or harmful to the body.
If you really want to eat it, and you should be sick to the insect diaphragm, we can soak it in salt water for ten minutes or so before eating the bayberry, and basically drive away all the larvae inside.
2. Bayberry will be dyed
When we buy bayberry, we will also find that the bottom layer of white paper will be dyed, is it true that those brightly colored bayberry is artificially dyed?
Merchants really do not have this strand of idle to do this kind of thing, which is mainly related to the anthocyanins in bayberry, we also said above, bayberry surface has no peel protection, it is easy to crack when pressed, dyeing is inevitable.
There are data showing that in addition to the white bayberry varieties, the bayberry we eat is generally rich in water-soluble anthocyanins, as long as it matures to a certain extent, it will be easy to dye the water red or purple because of the juice flowing out.
3. Would it be better to eat bayberry with nuclei?
I don't know where the saying came from: bayberry itself eats too much to cause intestinal discomfort, and eating bayberry nuclei together can also help our intestinal peristalsis and clean the intestines. Isn't that ridiculous?
But you don't believe it, there are really people who have done this: Recently, a man ate bayberry directly with the core together with the stomach, the result of abdominal pain is unbearable directly into the hospital, ct a photo only to find that the stomach is full of dense bayberry nuclei, and the cause of the man's stomach pain is the acute intestinal obstruction caused by these nuclei.
Bayberry nucleus is only hard itself, and even some have very sharp edges and corners, there is no scientific research to prove that eating it directly can help digestion, on the contrary, too hard objects directly into the digestive system will be difficult to digest and block the intestine, and even scratch the inner wall of the digestive tract, causing organ bleeding.
4. Pregnant women should not eat bayberry
In the folk, there is also a saying that bayberry belongs to raw and cold food, pregnant women should not eat, is this really the case?
First of all, there is currently no study to prove that there are things in bayberry that are not good for pregnant women, on the contrary, eating a little bayberry properly can also help supplement various vitamins and minerals, and the citric acid contained in it can also help pregnant women relieve morning sickness and play a role in promoting digestion.
Although there are still many misunderstandings about bayberry, we must also control the amount when eating bayberry, and the bayberry itself is not easy to store, try to put it in a cool and ventilated place or refrigerate, once the surface is found to be mold or rotten, remember not to continue to eat.