Experiment: 4 copies of cherry bubble out of two "small insects"
A reporter specifically to do a group of tests, respectively, in the supermarket and street fruit stalls to buy a small box of cherries, the sales were 18 yuan / catty and 10 yuan / catty. Reporters according to freshness, ripeness, whether broken and other sensory indicators are divided into "better group" and "worse group", simply wash off the surface stains, respectively, immersed in a unified configuration of a good cup of light salt water.
About half an hour later, the reporter found that the test results are far from the Internet rumors so exaggerated, only street stalls "worse group" of a cherry drilled two white, thread size, look like maggots like small insects. This cherry part of the skin blackened and softened, the reporter will soak out the small worms of the two cherries peeled, the internal corruption has been blackened, and there is a sour odor, but did not find similar online pictures of the situation covered with small worms. The remaining three samples did not appear small worms or other impurities.
About a month ago, for the Internet appeared "prunes soaked in salt water maggots", the reporter had the same experiments, the results of the experiment is that the four prunes are drilled a varying number of "bugs".
Experts rumors: fruit fly larvae have no effect on the human body
Seeing this kind of post on the Internet continues to ferment, some agricultural experts clarified that this is indeed the fruit fly eggs laid in the cherry, hatching, visible to the naked eye larvae. Fan Zhihong, an associate professor at the Department of Nutrition and Food Safety in the College of Food at China Agricultural University, explained that the small fleshworms in these fruits simply can't carry stomach acid. They die when they enter a person's stomach and become proteins in the food, which are eventually digested and absorbed. "There is absolutely no need to worry about them becoming parasites in the human body."
"Apart from the fact that it may be a bit uncomfortable psychologically, the eggs and larvae of fruit flies are not harmful to the human body." Xu Zhiqiang, PhD, associate professor at the entomology department of China Agricultural University, said fruit flies are a common pest for berries such as prunes and cherries. Fruit flies lay their eggs into the pulp, and the hatched larvae feed inside the fruit, which can cause the surface of the fruit to become bumpy, with juice spilling out or even rotting. "But it will never burrow from one fruit to another."
It is reported that the fruit fly breeding cycle is very short, usually about a week to reproduce a generation. The larvae are small and not easily detected. Because of this type of fruit directly into the mouth, such as the application of chemical insecticides, easy to increase the pesticide residues in the fruit.
Fan Zhihong further reminded that, regardless of the peach, pear heart-eating insects, or fruit fly larvae on cherries, itself is non-toxic, remove the insect part and wash it is safe to eat. "It's not really any scarier than pesticides."
Fruit fly
The fruit fly, commonly known as the fruit fly or vinegar fly, is widespread in temperate and tropical climates around the globe, and because of its staple diet of rotting fruit, it can be found in human habitats such as gardens and vegetable markets. At least 1,000 species of fruit flies have been identified, with the exception of the North and South Poles, and most of them feed on rotting fruits or plants, while a few feed only on fungi, sap or pollen.
How to eat prunes and cherries
What can you do if you want to eat prunes and are worried about the little bugs inside? Chen Hanjie said, people buy fresh prunes home, should be promptly put prunes to light salt water soak 5 ~ 10 minutes, then wash with water can be eaten, not only can remove the prunes on the floating dust, but also to maintain freshness.
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Question 2: Can you still eat prunes with small worms in them? There are small flesh worms in prunes, soak them in salt water for half an hour and you can see their white bodies." A netizen will be crawling out of the prunes in the small insects in the photo on the microblogging, immediately became the focus of attention, some netizens called out: "too disgusting! Can't get down!" But there are also netizens who accept this frankly: "The worms in the prunes neither affect the taste, nor jeopardize the health, just eat." Yesterday, a colleague from the company's planting base to bring over a large box of prunes, after soaking in salt water really found that the prunes really climbed out of the bugs. A colleague questioned this, in fact, usually, prunes in the bugs on the human body is not bad. From another point of view, if there are bugs in prunes, on the contrary, it can show that the pesticide residues in the flesh of prunes is very little, or even no pesticides. Can you eat the worms in prunes? Experts say: the worms in the prunes are relatively clean After learning that there are worms in prunes, the first reaction of many people is: "Surely do not dare to eat ah!" However, there are some bold people said: "eat a few worms is nothing!" Insect prunes in the end can eat? In fact, this kind of worms and our concept of maggots are completely different, they take the plant fruit as food, relatively clean, and no harm to the human body." There are worms in the fruit is actually a very common thing "Worms in prunes are actually a type of fruit fly. When the prunes are not yet ripe, the female bugs lay eggs on the surface of the fruit, and when the eggs hatch, the larvae burrow into the flesh. However, these worms are similar to the small green worms found in vegetable leaves and are not harmful to humans if eaten. On the contrary, the presence of worms can instead indicate that there is very little or even no pesticides in the fruit, making it more natural and ecological." However, for prunes without worms, experts believe that if you think that prunes without worms contain pesticides, this is also not true. It is likely to be the result of fruit growers doing a good job in pest control, which should be analyzed on a case-by-case basis. If consumers feel that prunes in the small insects some "disgusting", you can do some treatment of prunes, such as soaking in salt water for about 20 minutes, and then rinse with water can be. Storage methods: should not buy back the prunes directly into the refrigerator to save, but also can not be heated with a microwave oven "disinfection", because frozen or heated, prunes in the bugs may have been "killed", even if then soaked in salt water, but also will not soak the bugs out of the way. Do prunes need to be treated with fruit-setting and expanding agents? Generally do not need to sit on the fruit spirit, expansion agent recently, sit on the fruit spirit, expansion agent and other plant hormones of great concern to consumers, prunes will not also use plant hormones? In fact, the fruiting ability of the plum itself is better, usually do not need to use the fruiting spirit of such plant hormones. As for the expansion agent, the size of the head of the prune depends on the variety and maturity, if the variety is better, maturity later, the fruit development period is longer, the head will be larger, "usually the head of the prune is not added to the expansion agent." Pick red or black prunes? This is a different variety, has nothing to do with eating mouth, so the prunes in the end is purple and black good or red good? We all know that the green prunes are certainly not delicious, red, fuchsia or purple-black prunes and varieties related, it is difficult to say which color of prunes eat mouth the best. When selecting prunes, the public should pay attention to choosing evenly colored, fresh prunes for consumption, preferably with a certain luster. Is sweetness related to size? Sweetness has a little more to do with variety and environment. The size and color of prunes are related to the environment. Relatively speaking, prunes that are exposed to more light are sweeter. In addition, if organic fertilizers are used, it also helps the accumulation of sugar, and the plums will be sweeter. Sweetness and head size does not have a direct relationship, but with the varieties, the head of the small prunes may not be unsweet, the color of purple red and purple-black quality will be better.
Question three: can you eat the bugs in the prunes The white bugs inside the prunes are actually fruit fly larvae, which are not harmful to the human body. If accidentally eaten, there will be no adverse reaction. The fruit fly usually feeds on honey and fruit, and is cleaner itself. During the breeding season, it will be attracted by the odor of prunes and lay eggs on the surface of prunes. The fruit fly's eggs hatch into larvae that burrow into the flesh of the fruit and feed on it. If it grows naturally, it will not fly away until the larvae mature into fruit flies. From birth to growth, fruit fly larvae are almost always in a pollution-free environment, so there is almost no presence of germs that are not good for the human body, so eat prunes to eat not bad stomach.
Fruit fly larvae are a high-quality protein containing antimicrobial peptides. Some people take this worm as a treasure, that can improve human resistance. However, if the "prunes eat not bad stomach" attributed to the bugs inside, it is too far-fetched.
The shelf life of prunes is very short, only 1 ~ 2 days at room temperature, if there are bugs inside, it will be ripe with the deterioration of prunes. Fruit fly larvae in the white larval period is harmless to the human body, once mature, become black, climb out, and then eat it is harmful to the human body. Therefore, prunes should be eaten as soon as possible after purchase.
Problem 4: prunes can eat insects how to wash clean 1. salt water immersion method: salt water must be concentrated enough to drive away the inside of the small insects, generally 1 liter of water inside to put at least two spoons of salt, where the 'spoon' refers to the ordinary spoon used by children to eat. Soak in salt water for 20 - 30 minutes. After soaking, take it out and rinse it with water. 2. Fruit and vegetable washing machine: fruit and vegetable washing machine sterilization, explain the effect of pesticides is very good. Its main principle is to produce ozone through the ozone generator, ozone has an oxidizing effect can be effective sterilization. If you can hardly see the bugs in the prunes, it may be more pesticides, try to use the fruit and vegetable washing machine. 3. Fruit and vegetable cleaner also has the role of sterilization and neutralization of pesticides, but since it is a cleaning agent, there is no guarantee of complete non-toxicity and harmlessness, where in the use of cleaning agents, after the use of clean water, to rinse, the so-called rinse is to use tap water to rinse. 4. Stirring method: soak prunes in water for a few minutes, when prunes are almost all wet, and then stirred in one direction with the hand, the density of the impurities will be thrown out, do not stir, or prunes will not be fresh. 5. Lye soaking method: starch solution, baking soda solution can clean prunes, if neither, you can use flour solution, the same reason. After soaking for a few minutes, stir it with your hands, and use centrifugal force to separate the dirt from the wash down. Then just rinse with water.
Question five: can you eat the bugs in prunes, what will happen if you eat the bugs in prunes The bugs born in prunes are generally fruit fly larvae, feeding on the flesh of the prunes, and have been feeding on prunes since they hatched from eggs, which are very clean and unintentionally eaten without any relationship, and will not be sick.
Question six: can you eat prunes with insects in the end can ah, before eating with salt water soak for a while to let the insects out on the line
Question seven: prunes in the small bugs, eat will not be harmful to the health of this is the larvae of the fruit fly, is just an ordinary pest, can not afford to carry the stomach acid. Into the human stomach will die, and become the protein in the food, and eventually be digested and absorbed. In addition to the psychological may be a little uncomfortable, the fruit fly eggs and larvae of the human body is not any harm, but more people worry about pesticides, there are larvae also indicates that there has been no recent spraying of pesticides.
Question 8: Why are there bugs in prunes eating bugs is harmful to the body Of course! That bugs are fly maggots, fruit fly larvae ...... actually still maggots ......
You say can eat? How many germs no ah!
And the experts say you can eat it, I really want to pick out a bucket of it and let them eat it!
Question 9: Can you eat prunes with worms? The same treatment as cherries. The same way with cherries. If you have worms, you can eat them without worrying about the psychological burden
Question 10: Can I eat prunes with worms? Can eat, eat before soaking in lightly salted water for a while, the bugs will die, and there are bugs that no pesticides ......