Fox tapeworm hazard

The use of wild garlic collected in the forest

The fox tapeworm is a dangerous disease that can be transmitted to humans via the excrement of foxes when they consume wild herbs. This is problematic with wild garlic because it likes to be in raw form is consumed as a component of herb salads or as a topping on butter and quark bread. However, if you use the fox tapeworm, the risk of ingesting the invisible small eggs of the fox tapeworm is minimized Wash the wild garlic thoroughly and rub the individual leaves with your hands under hot running water. You should also do this if you have bought wild garlic in potted or already harvested form do, since the commercially sold wild garlic does not necessarily come from cultivation on fenced property.

Ways to use wild garlic in cooked form

If you want to be on the safe side, you should simply use the wild garlic in cooked form despite a certain loss of flavor. You can do this, for example, with the following types of use:

• Wild garlic gnocchi
• Wild garlic hash browns
• Puff pastry rolls with wild garlic
• Pickled Wild garlic buds

The boil and Insertion the one that has not yet blossomed Flower buds of wild garlic also has the advantage that it looks like that preserved buds much longer store leave as fresh wild garlic.

Grow wild garlic safely in your own garden

If your garden is not on the edge of the forest and is surrounded by a garden fence, you can go through it sowing or that Transplanting plant wild garlic in your garden and harvest its leaves without exposure to the fox tapeworm pathogen.

Tips & Tricks

That Planting Wild garlic in your own garden has the advantage that it not only practically eliminates the risk of fox tapeworms on fenced properties far away from forests. Controlled cultivation in an open space under deciduous trees also minimizes that Likelihood of confusion with poisonous doppelgangers like autumn crooks, lily of the valley and staff of Aarons.