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The Network regularly appear scary stories about how someone ate sushi and infected with intestinal parasites. Although the likelihood of eating raw fish and hooked an unwanted tenants actually exists, in fact, it is fairly rare, and to avoid this danger is a snap.
Most often, we are talking about the larvae of nematodes. They live in the raw fish and shellfish, but if it enters the human body often or just go out of it naturally, without stopping in the gut, or die quickly enough in an unusual aggressive environment. Even if you decide to nematodes settle in you, for more than 10 days, they will not survive.
Although cases of infestation occur more and more often, this is due to no deterioration in the quality of fish, and the fact that the land in popularity in the world continues to grow.
Of course, the surest way not to pick up the worm - do not eat sushi and sashimi. But they are delicious! In addition, the specific reasons for panic.
Why do not you worry about
Theoretically, parasites may be in any fish, but in practice it is not any fish gets to us on a plate, especially if you order it in a decent sushi restaurant. The fact that the fish you eat, has been subjected to a deep freeze at -25 degrees or lower, and stored as such in industrial freezer of from several hours to several days depending on the mode freezing. When such temperature conditions are killed all the larvae of parasites.
Yes, the land that we eat, are not made of the freshest fish caught that morning, but it's a good thing. Besides the fact that frost kills the larvae of nematodes and tapeworms, raw fish taste better, if allowed to lie down in a frozen form.
In addition to careful thermal treatment and the salting, freezing is a reliable method of disinfecting fish.
Surely your favorite sushi restaurant chain buys the fish from the supplier, which checks it before the sale. In particular, the method is used for fillet-through, in which all visible defects in fish, including bone remnants. If the defect is not possible to remove the fillets disposed. If you choose to prepare their own sushi at home, you can also use this method, considered the fillet to the light with the help of a powerful torch. In addition, a considerable part of the fish gets in restaurants with fish farms, where parasites are less common than in the wild.
How can you protect yourself
For its part, too, you can do something about it, to guard against intestinal parasites.
1. Find out more
Find a good sushi restaurant and ask for the administrator, where they take the fish. Look for information about the supplier. Find out if the fish is farmed or caught in the open sea. Good restaurants value their reputation, and if they really care about the quality of the dishes, their staff will be happy to answer all your questions.
2. Freeze and rayed fish themselves
If you are cooking sushi and sashimi at home, have patience. You need to find and buy good fish, finely chop it and examine each layer of the light. Followed by clean fish in the freezer and, if you have a fast freezing mode, hold it there for two days, and the standard freeze - week. By the way, you bought the fish are likely to have been subjected to this procedure, but it is better to be safe.
3. Find out the enemy in the face
Do not notice the presence of worms in a thin slice of sashimi quite difficult. But if you want to know exactly what they look like, look for a video on the Internet. Be warned, it would be disgusted.
Pathogenic bacteria in food is much more dangerous and much more common than the parasites in the fish.
Yet doctors advise pregnant women, children, the elderly and people with weakened immune systems refrain from eating raw fish. If you do not belong to any of these categories, to be afraid of you, in essence, nothing.
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