There are small white insects in bayberry that cannot be eaten? Do you know these truths about bayberry?

It's the season of eating bayberry again, the attractive color of the baywood makes people salivate, but some netizens said that when washing the bayberry, they found that they could bubble out small white bugs, which made many people feel frightened, "dare not eat bayberry" and "feel like eating bugs". So, can bayberry really bubble worms? Can I still eat it?

Little white insects are fruit fly larvae

In this regard, Ruan Guangfeng, director of the Science and Technology Communication Department of the Science and Technology Communication Center of Kexin Food and Health Information Exchange Center, told the Beijing News reporter that there may indeed be small white insects in the bayberry, which is a larvae of fruit flies. However, this fruit fly is born from the larvae to eat the flesh of the fruit, live on the nutrition of the fruit, do not carry infectious bacteria, and are generally harmless to the human body.

"In fact, even if you accidentally eat it, the acidity of the human body's gastric juice can also kill the fruit fly larvae, which will be digested as protein and will not survive or reproduce in the human body." Even if you eat it, it is not harmful to the human body, and there is no need to panic at all. Nguyen Quang Feng said.

Why do this fruit fly larvae appear in arbutus? Ruan Guangfeng explained, "The edible part of bayberry does not have a protective effect on the peel, and the flesh of the bayberry is tender and soft, and insects can easily invade the fruit to lay eggs, and it is easy to produce insects." ”

If you don't want to touch bugs when eating bayberry, there is also a solution. Ruan Guangfeng said that fruit flies are afraid of salt, and only need to soak them in cold boiled water and salt before eating, and the bugs will run out of the bayberry.

Are faded bayberry dyed?

When many people wash bayberry, they find that after washing bayberry, the water is red or dark purple, and they think that such bayberry has been dyed. Ruan Guangfeng said that this judgment is not reliable.

"It's not because of dyeing, bayberry, whether red or purple, is rich in water-soluble anthocyanins that dissolve easily in water." In addition, during the transportation and storage process, the bayberry will bump and break, and the juice will dissolve during cleaning, which will dye the water red or dark purple, which is a normal phenomenon. Nguyen Quang Feng explained.

Pick bayberry to remember "see, pinch, smell"

Doubts about bayberry have been eliminated, and you can eat bayberry with peace of mind. So how to pick delicious, high-quality baywood?

Fruit vendors at the Tegit Vegetable Market in Beijing's Dongcheng District told the Beijing News that the selection of bayberry is mainly "to see, pinch and smell." "Mature bayberry is dark red, black and red bayberry is overcooked, there is no original flavor of bayberry; secondly, it is better to pinch up the hard bayberry, and the soft flesh is overcooked; you can also smell the smell, good bayberry taste fragrant, if it smells of alcohol, it means that it is too cooked, and the quality is not very good."

Beijing News reporter Liu Huan

Edited by Li Yan Proofreader Wang Xin

Source: Beijing News