Why maggots are born inside vinegar

The vinegar produced by the regular enterprise is sterilized before packing, and it will not produce insects under the sealed condition, but when the vinegar is opened, it will produce maggots due to the contact with the air or the mixing of some insects' eggs and foreign matter. Maggots are the larvae of flies, and after the flies lay eggs, the bugs are easy to hatch in it due to the low acidity of vinegar and the nutrients.

Why maggots inside vinegar

Vinegar is a traditional condiment in Chinese cuisine, according to the existing text, the ancient Chinese working people to wine as a fermentation agent to ferment the brewing of vinegar, oriental vinegar originated in China, according to the documented history of vinegar brewing at least in the more than three thousand years.

China's famous vinegars are "Mysterious Xiangxi" original vinegar, Zhenjiang vinegar, Shanxi old chenggong vinegar, Bao'ning vinegar, Tianjin Duliu old vinegar, Yongchun old vinegar in Fujian Province, Guangling Dengfangbao vinegar, Qishan vinegar, Henan old turtle a special vinegar and red currant rice vinegar.

The production method of vinegar can be divided into brewing vinegar and synthetic vinegar. Brewing vinegar is brewed by microbial fermentation with grain, sugar and ethanol as raw materials, and synthetic vinegar is made by adding water, acidifier, flavoring and food coloring to edible acetic acid.