TIL you can soak freshly-picked blackberries to get larvae out

3 years ago by poopsmith to c/seattle

You know those blackberries you just picked? There are worms in them. Tiny white worms, almost transparent, that will ultimately blossom into fruit flies.

dgendreau 36 points 3 years ago

If you ever bring fresh fruit home and notice a few fruit flies in your house, guess where those came from...

Also, having grown up on an apple farm, I can tell you for sure, washing fruit as soon as you bring it home strips off the fine coating of natural wax and makes the fruit spoil more quickly. Its fine to wash just before you eat it, but washing it out of pure OCD is a good way to spoil fresh fruit.

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snooggums 7 points 3 years ago

Some things benefit from a quick wash and others suffer depending on whether they have a protective covering that gets washed away.

Blackberries and apples go bad faster after washing because it removes the protective barrier.

Lettuce, celery, and strawberries last a lot longer if you wash them immediately because they don't lose a barrier that causes them to go bad faster.

I know you said fruits, but fruits like strawberries don't fit the pattern.

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ridethisbike 0 points 3 years ago

I'm confused on the lettuce etc... They DON'T lose a barrier when you wash them? This implies that the water is acting as the barrier?

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snooggums 3 points 3 years ago

I don't think lettuce has a barrier to lose. I don't rinse cucumbers, squash, or melons and their skin is waxy like an apple.

Cutting out the stem/separating all the leaves and rinsing and soaking for 5 or 10 minutes extends the lettuce life in the fridge by a week or more than just leaving it in the bag it came in.

Same with strawberries, rinsing them when you get home (not soaking like lettuce) extends their fridge life.

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Neato 2 points 3 years ago

When I get my fruit from our CSA home, I only rinse food that's visibly dirty, usually melons. Because they'd make a mess everywhere. Everything gets stored and washed at dinner time.

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ChamelAjvalel 33 points 3 years ago

As I always told my kids when it came to eating mulberries, give them a quick once over, then enjoy. Because you don't want to get a good look at them.

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ikapoz 19 points 3 years ago

Really? From that article I learned “don’t be a baby and just eat them.”

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danwardvs 18 points 3 years ago

The article says soaking in salt water can “encourage” them to come out. And even then they admit that this is something they’ve just heard.

Just eat the bugs.

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mindgibber 9 points 3 years ago

Extra protein

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Pink_Champagne 9 points 3 years ago

Omg I wished I had never read this. 😩

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coys25 5 points 3 years ago

If you think that this is gross, definitely don't look up anything about salmon parasites...

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Montagge 4 points 3 years ago

That's free protein!

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Semi-Hemi-Demigod 2 points 3 years ago

Slimy yet satisfying

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AncientFutureNow 3 points 3 years ago

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atticus88th 1 point 3 years ago

I like how this region just kind of rolled over and gave up on trying to control the invasive Himalayan Blackberry.

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foofy 1 point 3 years ago

To be fair, it's pretty tough to control.

I dig/dug it out of my yard, but I don't know if I'd volunteer to do it anywhere else.

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tallwookie 0 points 3 years ago

eh... time to burn my blackberry bushes I guess.

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Maajmaaj -9 points 3 years ago

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Hildegarde 8 points 3 years ago

To be fair you sound crazy.

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Maajmaaj 2 points 3 years ago

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