The enjoyment of fresh raspberries is significantly spoiled if the fruits are maggot, moldy or have hardly any aroma left. Raspberries must therefore be picked carefully before being consumed. What you need to pay attention to.
How can you correctly pick raspberries?
When picking raspberries, you should remove dirt, check soft spots, remove insects, look for maggots and test the aroma. Use only unblemished fruits for consumption or processing.
Tips for picking raspberries
- Carefully rub off dirt
- Check for soft spots
- Remove insects
- Look inside for maggots
- Check the aroma
- Do not wash if possible
Consume fresh fruits immediately
Raspberries taste best raw, picked directly from the bush. Wipe the fruit briefly with your hands and look inside for maggots.
If the raspberry harvest was too plentiful, you have to process it straight away. You cannot store raspberries for a long time. Before processing, you must carefully sort the fruits.
You can tell that the fruit is really fresh because the raspberry pearls are full and have a deep red, black or yellow color. Only such fruits are suitable for processing.
Discard rotten, moldy and maggot fruits
No matter how sorry you may be, you have to throw away raspberries with rotten spots, mold or maggots. Maggots in themselves are not harmful to he alth, but they spoil the taste of the fruit.
Cutting off affected areas is of little use. Mold spores in particular are not visible externally and have probably already infected the entire fruit.
Moldy or rotten fruit not only doesn't taste good. They can also cause nausea. Therefore, only enjoy and use flawless fruits and store the delicate raspberries for a few hours at most.
Read the fruits thoroughly before processing
If you cook, freeze or make jam from raspberries, you must be particularly careful when picking them.
If the fruits are just a little soft, try to see if the taste of the raspberries is still okay. Fruit puree can be made from soft fruits.
Even one rotten raspberry can spoil the taste of an entire jar of jam. If a maggot appears in the jam jar, the home-made jam will probably no longer taste as good.
Tips & Tricks
You will have less work to sort if you plant autumn raspberries in the garden. They hardly contain any maggots because the raspberry beetle is only active when the summer raspberries are blooming.
