It’s waxberry season again. If you see waxberry but dare not move, is it because you have heard these [things you must know before eating waxberry]?
Small white worms soaked in waxberry, disgusting and shocked!
Myrica rubra must not be eaten with these things!
Eating waxberry like this is equivalent to eating arsenic!
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Small white worms in waxberry can be eaten at ease.
It is true that there may be small white worms in waxberry, which are the larvae of fruit flies. This is a normal natural phenomenon in the traditional planting of waxberry, and fruit flies in the larval stage are not harmful to human body if eaten, so there is no need to panic at all.
What should I do if my appetite is really affected and my heart is unable to pass?
Salt water soaking has many benefits.
Just bought Myrica rubra can use cold boiled water to add salt, soak it, less than a few minutes more than ten minutes can soak the small white worm out, and clear water soaking or running water washing, the effect is not good. If you buy more Myrica rubra at one time, after soaking, put it into the refrigerator.
Another advantage of soaking waxberry in salt water is that it can make the sour and sweet waxberry taste sweeter and less astringent.
As for washing waxberry with raw flour or fruit and vegetable cleaning powder, there is no special need, but it will destroy some flavor of waxberry.
Washing waxberry fades, which cannot be said to be dyed.
There is a saying on the Internet that if the waxberry bought at home is soaked in water and the water is red or black, it is asserted that the waxberry is dyed.
However, Myrica rubra except white Myrica rubra varieties is rich in water-soluble anthocyanins. As long as Myrica rubra is ripe to a certain extent, the juice will easily flow out and the water will be dyed red, which is not surprising.
However, melanin is usually not water-soluble. If you really dye black waxberry additionally, you should leave a bowl of clear water after soaking. Therefore, you should remain suspicious of the statement that the water turns black after soaking.
One thing is right: observe the basket containing waxberry. If the edges are dyed red all over the place, and the waxberry is soft and tastes like wine, it indicates that the waxberry may have been stored for a long time and is not very fresh.
None of the statements [cannot eat together] are correct.
1. Can’t waxberry be eaten with seafood?
The explanation for the rumor is:
All fruits are rich in vitamin C, seafood contains arsenic, and then vitamin C reacts with arsenic to generate arsenic trioxide, that is, arsenic. Common fruits and juices such as orange juice and lemon juice cannot be eaten with seafood.
At present, it is all false news that vitamin C and seafood will be poisoned when eaten together. If this kind of poisoning phenomenon really happens, it takes about 400 to 500 shrimps to eat at one go and swallow a huge amount of vitamin C tablets at the same time.
Can’t waxberry and cucumber be eaten together?
This rumor, in fact, has spread more widely that tomatoes and cucumbers cannot be eaten together. The explanation of the rumor is:
Cucumber contains vitamin C decomposing enzyme, which can decompose vitamin C in waxberry (or tomato), causing nutrition loss.
Are you kidding what? Everyone has forgotten that cucumbers also contain vitamin C, how can there be such decomposition phenomenon, but it must work on foods other than cucumbers?
3. Myrica rubra cannot be eaten with milk?
The explanation for the rumor is:
Myrica rubra (and various fruits) contain fruit acid, which solidifies milk protein and affects absorption.
When milk enters our stomach, it needs to react with stronger gastric acid and be digested. Weak organic acids in fruits have very limited effects on protein absorption.
Myrica rubra is not easy to digest if you eat too much.
Myrica rubra has the laudatory name of “agate in fruit” and has the effects of relieving summer heat, promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, promoting digestion, helping digestion and relieving diarrhea.
These are related to the rich organic acids in waxberry, which is true, but it is important to be careful that waxberry is much easier to eat, which will cause many people to accumulate food and feel full and uncomfortable.
People with dyspepsia, hyperacidity and gastroesophageal reflux cannot eat too much.
Eating waxberry does not stop diarrhea, but relaxes constipation.
In addition, it is often mentioned that waxberry has the function of relieving diarrhea and dysentery. In fact, it is the function of waxberry extract. This is why drinking waxberry wine soaked in high alcohol has certain antidiarrheal effect.
And if you eat a large amount of waxberry directly, not only can’t stop diarrhea, but also is likely to promote laxative, even diarrhea. Fruits like waxberry, mulberry and strawberry, with small fluff and granular fruits on the surface, can effectively stimulate intestinal peristalsis, thus quickly defecating.
Diabetes and pregnant women can also eat waxberry
Worried about high blood sugar does not mean that fruits can’t eat at all. The sugar content of waxberry is relatively low in fruits, about 7%, and the blood sugar reaction is not high. There are also studies showing that some varieties of waxberry contain certain hypoglycemic and lipid-lowering active substances. Therefore, people who need to control blood sugar can still eat waxberry.
Step 1 Be careful not to eat too much
If the total amount of waxberry and other fruits eaten every day is within half a kilo, it is not a big problem. If it is a patient with high blood sugar, you can eat half a kilo of fruit twice, and it is not easy to cause blood sugar fluctuations.
Step 2 Be careful of deterioration
Myrica rubra is not resistant to storage, and it is very easy to deteriorate after a few days of storage and has the smell of alcohol. Therefore, it should be placed in a ventilated and cool place, preferably in a refrigerator or protected by ice bags. Be careful not to eat bad food when eating, otherwise it is easy to have diarrhea. Pregnant women need to be more careful.