If you are a beginner berry picker, be sure to check how to properly prepare for it. You need to remember a few important things when harvesting so that you don’t come home with a disappointed face and an empty jar. Also, be careful because there may be danger lurking in the forest that you won’t notice with the naked eye.
How to look for berries? With these tips, your harvest will be fruitful
The most important thing when looking for berries is choosing a place. can be collected from June to the end of August in forests dominated by spruces and pines. Small bushes need access to sunlight, so look for them where the forest is thinning, e.g. in clearings. When you find them, only pick ripe and healthy fruit. Even one small, moldy berry can infect the others in the jar and cause the rest to quickly spoil. Remember to dress appropriately – wear long sleeves, trousers and a baseball cap, and spray yourself with an effective repellent before entering the forest. This will protect you against mosquito and tick bites.
WARNING! When choosing a forest, take into account whether you can freely enter it and pick berries. If there is a ban on entering a place, obey it. It is possible that it is dangerous there due to tree cutting or organized hunting.
Can you eat berries from the bush? The doctor has a simple answer to this
If you happen to eat fruit straight from the fruit while picking berries, you are endangering your health and even your life. It’s all because of tapeworm eggs that can be found on forest plants. They cause a serious parasitic disease – echinococcosis, which is very difficult to treat. As stated on the website patient.gov.pl, it manifests itself with shortness of breath, headaches and jaundice.
Forest fruits (illustrative photo) Photo Małgorzata Kujawka / Agencja Wyborcza.pl
Tapeworm eggs are transmitted by the feces of infected foxes, and are resistant to low and high temperatures, so they pose a very high risk to people who eat forest fruit without proper treatment. Dr. Piotr Borkowski from the Medical University of Warsaw explained in an interview for Medonet that washing fruit alone will not protect us against parasite infection. When asked if he eats berries himself, he replied:
It is also difficult to rinse the berries thoroughly because the parasite eggs can hide near the green tip of the fruit and will not drain away with the water. That’s why I like to eat these fruits, but only boiled or baked, e.g. in jagodzianki.
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Source: Gazeta
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