storage can help reduce food-safety risks, but no ordinary washing method can guarantee that every microscopic organism or insect-related material has been removed.
Once you understand why these tiny creatures can appear in seemingly perfect fruit, the strange viral videos become much less mysterious.
The Bigger Picture
Seeing tiny white worms emerge from strawberries can certainly be shocking, especially when social-media videos present the discovery as something dangerous or unusual.
But the presence of fruit-fly larvae does not automatically mean that strawberries are unsafe or unhealthy.
Fresh produce naturally interacts
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