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- The fox tapeworm as a danger when eating wild garlic
- The use of wild garlic gathered in the forest
- Opportunities for the use of wild garlic in cooked form
- Grow wild garlic in your own garden
- Tips & Tricks
The fox tapeworm as a danger when eating wild garlic
The wild garlic is one of the culinary herbs that are usually collected in the wild. There is also a certain risk of infection with the pathogens of the fox tapeworm in affected areas if safety rules are not adhered to.
The use of wild garlic gathered in the forest
The fox tapeworm is a dangerous disease that can be transmitted via the excrements of foxes in the consumption of wild herbs to humans. This is problematic in the wild garlic, as it is often eaten in raw form as part of herbal salads or as a topping on butter and quark bread. However, if you wash the wild garlic thoroughly while rubbing the individual leaves with your hands under running, hot water, the risk of ingesting the invisible small eggs of the fox tapeworm is minimized. Incidentally, you should also do this with purchased wild garlic in a padded or already harvested form, as the commercially sold wild garlic is not necessarily from cultivation on fenced land.
Opportunities for the use of wild garlic in cooked form
If you want to be on the safe side, you should use the wild garlic in a boiled form, despite a certain loss of flavor. You can do this, for example, with the following usage types:
The boil and put the not yet flowered buds of wild garlic also has the advantage that the buds preserved so preserved can be much longer than fresh wild garlic.
Grow wild garlic in your own garden
If your garden is not at the edge of a forest and is bordered by a garden fence, then you can plant by planting or transplanting entire plants wild garlic in your garden and harvest its leaves without being burdened with the fox tapeworm pathogen.
Tips & Tricks
The planting of wild garlic in your own garden has the advantage that not only the risk of fox tapeworm can be virtually excluded with fenced land far away from forests. The controlled cultivation on an open space under deciduous trees also minimizes the likelihood of confusion with poisonous doppelgängers such as Herbstzeitlosen, lily of the valley and Aaronstab.