Recently, fruit maggots such as bayberry and cherry have been circulated on the Internet, which triggered a large number of spontaneous experiments by netizens and confirmed that white larvae crawled out of bayberry and cherry soaked in salt water and liquor.

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Experiment: Four cherries make two "bugs"

A reporter specially conducted a set of experiments, and bought a small box of cherries in the supermarket and the street fruit stand. The prices were 18 yuan/kg and 10 yuan/kg respectively. Reporters are divided into "good group" and "poor group" according to sensory indicators such as freshness, maturity and breakage. After simply cleaning the surface stains, soak them in a uniformly configured light salt water cup.

About half an hour later, the reporter found that the experimental results were far less exaggerated than the online madness. Only two white, linear-sized, maggot-like bugs emerged from a cherry in the street "poor group". Part of the skin of this cherry has turned black and softened. The reporter peeled off two cherries with bugs, which were rotten and black and smelled sour and smelly, but did not find any bugs in the online pictures. There are no bugs or other impurities in the other three samples.

About a month ago, the reporter also conducted the same experiment for the online saying "Myrica rubra soaked in salt water to drill out maggots". The result of the experiment at that time was that different numbers of "bugs" were drilled in four bayberry samples.

Experts deny that fruit fly larvae have no effect on human body.

Seeing that such posts are constantly fermenting on the Internet, some agricultural experts clarified that this is indeed a larva visible to the naked eye after the eggs of fruit flies are laid in cherries. Fan Zhihong, an associate professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Safety, College of Food Science, China Agricultural University, explained that the small meat bugs in these fruits simply can't stand stomach acid. If you enter the stomach, you will die and become protein in food, which will eventually be digested and absorbed. "There is absolutely no need to worry that they will become parasites in the human body."

"Apart from psychological discomfort, the eggs and larvae of fruit flies are harmless to people's health." Dr Xu Zhiqiang, an associate professor of entomology at China Agricultural University, said that fruit flies are common pests of bayberry, cherry and other berries. Drosophila lays eggs in the flesh, and the hatched larvae eat in the fruit, and the surface of the fruit will be uneven, the juice will overflow and even rot. But never from one fruit to another.

According to reports, the breeding cycle of fruit flies is very short, and it usually takes about a week to breed a generation. Larvae is too small to be easily found. Because this fruit is directly imported, if chemical pesticides are applied, it is easy to increase pesticide residues in the fruit.

Fan Zhihong further reminded that both the fruit eaters in peaches and pears and the fruit fly larvae in cherries are non-toxic, and it is safe to eat them after removing the insects. In fact, it is not more terrible than pesticides.

fruit fly

The English common name of fruit fly is fruit fly or vinegar fly. Drosophila is widely distributed in temperate and tropical climates all over the world, and its staple food is rotten fruit, so it can be found in human habitats such as gardens and vegetable markets. In addition to the North and South Poles, at least 1000 species of fruit flies have been found, most of which feed on rotten fruits or plants, and a few only feed on fungi, tree sap or pollen.

How to eat bayberry and cherry?

I want to eat bayberry, but I'm afraid there are bugs in it. What should I do? Chen said that after people buy fresh bayberry and go home, they should soak it in light salt water for 5~ 10 minutes in time, and then rinse it with clear water before eating it. This can not only remove the floating dust on bayberry, but also keep it fresh.

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Relevant reference sources are as follows:

Xinhuanet:

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Tencent.com:

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Baidu Encyclopedia:

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