• plain_and_simply@feddit.uk
      2·
      1 year ago

      I remember hearing about a parasitic wasp in a fig but is it all figs? I like fig but I don’t often buy it, this information inventivises me not to buy fig…

      • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
        6·
        1 year ago

        To my understanding, they don’t all contain wasps, and even the types that do have the wasp thing, any trace of a wasp will be long destroyed before the fruit is ready anyway

        • plain_and_simply@feddit.uk
          1·
          1 year ago

          Thank you for the input, appreciate it! I’m glad I had 3 very helpful response (yours being one of the 3 helpful ones!). I had assumed the wasp would still be there, didn’t realise it’ll be absorbed as part of the life cycle

        • plain_and_simply@feddit.uk
          1·
          1 year ago

          Thank you! I appreciate your explanation - I didn’t realise it was part of the life cycle, not knowing made it easy to assume something worse

      • Donjuanme@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        Wait until you hear about sugar, and bread. And you think being processed will help? That’s where the mammals start to come in.

        • plain_and_simply@feddit.uk
          1·
          1 year ago

          Thank you for spending the time to comment but unlike the other responses, yours wasn’t as helpful. After understanding how the wasp is involved in the lifecycle of the fig, I have no qualms eating it.

          Also I don’t think understand what your comment is about…