The enjoyment of fresh raspberries is significantly spoiled if the fruit is maggot or moldy or has hardly any aroma. Raspberries must therefore be carefully sorted before consumption. What to look out for.

Tips for sorting raspberries

  • Rub off dirt carefully
  • Check for soft spots
  • remove insects
  • Check inside for maggots
  • Check the aroma
  • If possible, do not wash

Consume fresh fruit immediately

Raspberries taste best raw, picked straight from the bush. Briefly wipe the fruit with your hands, look inside for maggots.

If the raspberry harvest is too plentiful, you must process it immediately. You cannot store raspberries for long. Before processing, you must carefully sort the fruit.

You can recognize really fresh fruit by the fact that the raspberry pearls are bulging and have a deep red, black or yellow colour. Only such fruits are suitable for processing.

Discard rotten, moldy, and maggot fruit

As sorry as you may be, throw away rotten, moldy, or maggot raspberries. Maggots are not harmful to health in themselves, but they spoil the taste of the fruit.

Cutting off affected areas is of little use. Mold spores in particular are not visible from the outside and have probably already infested the entire fruit.

Moldy or rotten fruit not only doesn't taste good. They can also cause nausea. Therefore, only enjoy and use fruit that is in perfect condition and store the sensitive raspberries for a few hours at most.

Read the fruit thoroughly before processing

If you boil raspberries, freeze them or make jam from them, you have to be particularly careful when sorting them.

If the fruit is just a little soft, try to see if the raspberries still taste okay. Fruit pulp can be prepared from soft fruits.

Even one rotten raspberry can spoil the flavor of an entire jar of jam. If a maggot appears in the jam jar, the home-made jam will no longer taste as good.

tips and tricks

You have less work with the sorting if you plant autumn raspberries in the garden. They hardly contain any maggots, since the raspberry beetle is only active when the summer raspberries are in bloom.

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Vegetable garden