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See What Is Really Hiding In Your Strawberries In The ‘Strawberry Challenge’

As if 2020 could get any worse, TikTok has people soaking strawberries in saltwater in search of tiny bugs! According to a professor, a particular species of fly is able…

As if 2020 could get any worse, TikTok has people soaking strawberries in saltwater in search of tiny bugs!

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After pre-washing my strawberries (rinsing each berry by hand, one by one), I soaked the strawberries in room temperature salt water and proceeded to almost pass out when I saw what came wiggling its way out!

Check out the pic I took, below:

If you don't see it, please visit your eye doctor to be fitted for glasses or contacts immediately.  This thing came wiggling out within the first 60 seconds of being submerged in saltwater, along with a couple of other, small bugs.  Now, I'm not alarmed at the fact that these bugs exist.  It's the fact that I prewashed and they were still hiding in the berry!  ...I will not be eating strawberries for a very long time.
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Here's a video on how to wash berries, if you still have the stomach to eat them after experiencing what I did:

Will YOU continue to eat strawberries now that you know this?

What extra precautions are you willing to take?

-Tracy Marie