Many people believe that this bug is a fruit fly, this view is denied by experts. Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences Biological Center, Dr. Liu Bo said, fruit flies will also harm the fruit, but the symptoms are completely different, there are fruit flies of prunes will generally rot on the surface. And this looks fresh and intact prunes, but soaked up a lot of small insects, in fact, is a kind of wheat moth family of lepidopterous insects.
Because of the high nutrient content of prunes and no outer skin, it is particularly easy to attract all kinds of bugs, this kind of wheat moth family of insects in the prunes are not yet ripe, grows outside the kernel of the prunes, so people can't see it with the naked eye, and can't soak it out with clear water, can only be used with brine to force the bugs to come out.
After the prunes are picked from the tree, the fruits start to die and the bugs multiply faster, so sometimes people can see above a pile of prunes, there are always some small bugs flying, which is what this lepidopteran insect looks like after it feathers.
It is normal to have this kind of bugs in prunes, because prunes do not have peel, once ripe, sweet and fruity flavor will attract a lot of bugs. In the reporter's interview yesterday, many experts have said that this fruit tree worm is not harmful, there is no clinical proof that it has toxicity, people can rest assured that they can eat.
Provincial Department of Agriculture Planting Industry Management Bureau of Fruit Tree Section of the relevant person reminded that the public to buy fresh prunes home, should be put into a higher concentration of salt water soak, and should not be placed in the refrigerator first, because the low temperature will lead to the death of the bugs, and dead bugs is to put into the salt water can not be out of the soak. This kind of worm eaten on the body has no effect, and still high protein things, huh! It's just disgusting, so it's better to soak them for a longer time before eating them
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