Best way to debug organic broccoli?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did you know an average person eats 2lbs of bugs every year? From ketchups, veggies and stuff.

Which is fine when we don't know it. It's the knowing that makes it awful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've bought produce from Whole Foods, including much broccoli, for more than a decade and have NEVER had a bug infestation in anything. I sometimes get a few tiny bugs in lettuce, once found a huge caterpillar in their frozen whole spinach bag, and once found live wriggling tiny worms in fresh, never-frozen, salmon I had just baked (I posted about that episode on DCUM a few years ago - still traumatized).

I would ask for a refund. It's very easy to get a refund when you get Whole Foods deliveries via Amazon.

W.T.F.

Fish has tons of parasites. This is why USDA requires it to be frozen. Also “fresh” fish has been sitting around in the best scenario for a week or more.

[Anonymous]

This is not normal, even for organic. It means the crop had an infestation that wasn't handled. There is no way to get rid of them. There are hundreds of of bugs within the florets, soaking might knick off a few, but go ahead and dig round and you will see clumps of them all over inside the heads.

Throw it out. I will only buy organic broccoli that isn't pre-wrapped so that I am able to carefully inspect it in the store.

[Anonymous]

Yeah I absolutely would not eat this brocolli, this is not normal

[Anonymous]

Omg! I would throw that broccoli out in my yard, in the very back, behind the tree line and try to forget it ever happened.

[Anonymous]

I think someone needs to start a thread: Grossest thing you Learned on DCUM

[Anonymous]

One thought -- a tiny amount of dish soap just top break up surface tension. Then follow with plenty of rinse (I promise you won't have detergent residue).

Had a cat with a bad flea problem in the past, I'd dunk her in lukewarm water and go at it with the flea comb and drop the fleas into water and detergent solution, otherwise they could jump right off the surface of the water.

However, large populations of bugs, however small, in a head of broccoli would be unnerving to me.

[Anonymous]

https://thedocskitchen.com/dont-make-my-mistake-of-almost-feeding-your-kids-bug-infested-broccoli/

[Anonymous]

Broccoli is on the Clean 15. Buy the conventional Broccoli next time.

[Anonymous]

I have stopped getting produce from whole foods. Brocolli and Brussels sprouts are especially infested and wilted.

I have better luck at Giant and Wegmans organic sections. I still wash in a salted water bath to get rid of pesticide.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've bought produce from Whole Foods, including much broccoli, for more than a decade and have NEVER had a bug infestation in anything. I sometimes get a few tiny bugs in lettuce, once found a huge caterpillar in their frozen whole spinach bag, and once found live wriggling tiny worms in fresh, never-frozen, salmon I had just baked (I posted about that episode on DCUM a few years ago - still traumatized).

I would ask for a refund. It's very easy to get a refund when you get Whole Foods deliveries via Amazon.

I think about your worms in salmon story every time I eat fish now

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://thedocskitchen.com/dont-make-my-mistake-of-almost-feeding-your-kids-bug-infested-broccoli/

“ The FDA has a book called The Defect Levels Handbook. It establishes the “maximum levels of natural or unavoidable defects in foods for human use that present no health hazard.” Regarding broccoli, the FDA allows an “average of 60 or more aphids and/or thrips and/or mites per 100 grams.” That’s the equivalent of 204 bugs in a 12-ounce bag of broccoli.”

Ahhhhhhhh!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've bought produce from Whole Foods, including much broccoli, for more than a decade and have NEVER had a bug infestation in anything. I sometimes get a few tiny bugs in lettuce, once found a huge caterpillar in their frozen whole spinach bag, and once found live wriggling tiny worms in fresh, never-frozen, salmon I had just baked (I posted about that episode on DCUM a few years ago - still traumatized).

I would ask for a refund. It's very easy to get a refund when you get Whole Foods deliveries via Amazon.

Oh wow I’m still traumatized by that post too! Your husband ended up eating it!

[Anonymous]

I bought broccoli from Whole Foods and found a bunch of worms in them!!! 😭😫 Whole Foods has officially ruined broccoli for me. I don’t think I can ever eat it again

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The fish worm thing is common. This is why I pretty much stick to frozen at this point (that, and I’m cheap).

It really sounds like excessive broccoli bugs, though. I can’t imagine.

Most fish is frozen on the boat or immediately upon docking. The problem is this “fresh, flown-in” stuff or if the ship stayed at sea longer than expected due to weather or failure. I live on an island and pick up my fish daily from the boat and cook that night.