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White Larvae & Bugs in Short Grain Rice


VivreManger

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I have a fifteen pound bag of Tamanishiki super premium short grain rice from Sacramento which I purchased more than a year ago. There is now about a pound or two left. Recently I noticed some bugs flying in the corked glass jar where I had stored part of it. I also checked the plastic bag where the rest of it is stored. Although no bugs were flying there, there are plenty of white larvae.

I strained and rinsed a cup of rice several times, yielding several of the larvae. I can't be certain that I have removed them all.

Previously I had cooked a cup of it, without prior cleaning, and noticed the multiple larvae so I threw the whole thing out.

I asked the clerk at the store where I had first bought it and she thought it not worth worrying about. Though she did tell me to clean it first.

Any advice out there?

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Don't worry.  Just wash well, and if you don't wash well, think of it as extra protein.

. . . and tell us what they taste like.

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I keep all my rice in the freezer to avoid that extra protein!

I'd do that too, but it's hard to stick a 5kg bag of rice in my regular-sized refrigerator freezer compartment, and still have room for other stuff.

I recently bought some kind of "medicine" that's supposed to help keep the bugs out of my rice. Haven't figured out if it's working, because I added it after I already had bugs. Oops. I'm hoping it will at least kill whatever is already in there, or at least prevent them from procreating.

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Don't worry.  Just wash well, and if you don't wash well, think of it as extra protein.

. . . and tell us what they taste like.

Chicken?

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So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.

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You have a food moth infestation. I had the same problem; they get everywhere. I took the way the UK addresses foot and mouth, mad cow..... I got rid of them by throwing out anything they would eat not in a closed container. Then, I washed down my cabinets and any place a dead moth was found. Draconian? You betcha! This was the only way to get rid of them Any time I brought home anything, into a closed container it would go. By the way, a closed container must be solid, they will eat through paper. If they return, they will be contained.

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