What should pregnant women do if they eat bayberry worms?

Women should pay attention to food hygiene during pregnancy, and some foods are taboo. Bayberry contains vitamin C and many kinds of organic acids. Bayberry is also rich in antioxidants. People can quench thirst after eating bayberry. Eating some bayberry in summer can prevent heatstroke. However, when eating bayberry, you must pay attention to thoroughly remove the bayberry worms. Some pregnant women accidentally eat bayberry worms and worry about adverse effects. What should pregnant women do if they eat bayberry worms? Let’s take a look at it next.

1. What should pregnant women do if they eat bayberry worms?

The small white bugs in the bayberry are actually the larvae of fruit flies and are not harmful to the human body. Bayberry contains effective bactericidal ingredients, which have inhibitory effects on Escherichia coli and Shigella dysenteriae, and are effective for those with persistent diarrhea.

Fruit flies usually feed on honey, fruits, etc. and are relatively clean. During the breeding season, it will be attracted by the smell of bayberry and lay eggs on the surface of the bayberry. After the fruit fly eggs hatch into larvae, they burrow into the fruit flesh and feed on it. If it grows naturally, the larvae will not fly away until they mature and turn into fruit flies. From birth to growth, fruit fly larvae are almost always in a pollution-free environment, so there are almost no bacteria that are harmful to the human body, so eating bayberry will not upset your stomach.

Drosophila larvae are a high-quality protein that contains antimicrobial peptides. Some people regard this insect as a treasure, believing that it can improve people's resistance. However, it would be too far-fetched to attribute the fact that eating bayberry will not upset your stomach to the bugs inside it.

2. How to effectively remove bayberry bugs?

After all, bayberry is a fruit without peel. Dr. Zheng believes that if you want to eat it healthily, it is recommended to soak it in cold boiled water with salt. This method can force the bugs out. The purchased bayberries should be soaked in salt water before being put into the refrigerator, otherwise the insects will be frozen to death in the refrigerator and cannot be forced out with salt water.

3. Suggestions

Although bayberry weevils are harmless to the human body, most people still have some psychological barriers. How can we effectively force out the weevils? Based on the experts' advice, we bought a pound of bayberries and did an experiment. In the experiment, the bayberry was divided into three parts, one part was soaked in clean water, one part was soaked in salt water, and the other part was rinsed with running water. When the bayberries are soaked in salt water, several live white insects will immediately float out. When the bayberries are soaked in clear water, fewer insects will float out, and the soaking time will be longer. The bayberries were washed under running water, but not a single bug was washed out of the basin where the water was collected.