The treatment methods for worms in prunes are: soaking in salt water, washing with starch, and washing with baking soda.

1, salt water soaking

Yangmei have insects, you can put the prunes into the light salt water soaked 20-30 minutes, to prevent the eggs and larvae are frozen and can not come out of the pulp. When the soaking is complete, a layer of tiny worms will float on the water surface, remove the prunes from the water and drain them, and wash them several times.

2, starch cleaning

Found that prunes have insects, you can use the starch cleaning method, you need to prepare a wide-mouthed bowl can be loaded with all the prunes, and then add the starch solution, then you can put the prunes into the bowl to soak for 20 minutes, and in the process of soaking, keep stirring the solution with your fingers, to improve the efficiency of the prunes out of the insects.

3, baking soda cleaning

Found that prunes have insects, you can use baking soda cleaning method, you need to prepare a wide-mouth bowl filled with water, and then add a certain amount of baking soda, and then you can put the prunes into the bowl to soak for 30 minutes, wait for the completion of the immersion, and then use water to wash prunes many times, prunes no longer contain bugs.

Reasons why prunes are prone to bugs

The edible part of the prune is the fleshy pericarp, which is hard and acidic when immature, and very soft when fully ripe, and a little bit of a bump will trickle out the sweet red fruit juice. It is for this reason that the prunes are not easy to transport, in the past years of inconvenient transportation, only the prunes origin people can eat fresh prunes, the origin of the people north of the prunes can only taste pickled prunes to relieve the craving.

Besides the fact that they are not resistant to storage and transportation, the fleshy exocarp of the prune makes it easy to attract insects. The fleshy part of the water is so brightly exposed, even the shell of the cover is not, the wind blowing a burst of sweet aroma will naturally attract the bugs have patronized.