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Brilio.net - Cooking activities provide various benefits for a person's life. Cost savings and improved mental health are the main advantages of cooking hobbies. Based on information from everydayhealth.com, cooking can improve mood, calm the body and mind, and increase accuracy and self-confidence. One of the disturbances that often arise when cooking is the presence of flies on the dishes that have been served.
Flies have the ability to detect food very quickly and unexpectedly. Information from kobe-u.ac.jp explains that flies are equipped with two sensory neurons in their brains that function to regulate the sense of taste and smell. This nerve structure allows flies to detect the aroma of food quickly. High detection ability causes flies to immediately come to the source of the aroma of the dish.
Flies can be repelled using various methods ranging from chemical sprays to natural concoctions. There are practical ways to prevent flies from landing on food other than these two methods. An effective prevention method has been shared by a YouTube user named Gara Arna. Information on practical ways to repel flies can be accessed through his personal YouTube channel.
"The flies will run away, this is the secret," he explained.
Quoted by BrilioFood from YouTube garaarnayudha on Friday (11/25), the secret is using papaya leaves. He explained that you can use papaya leaves that are old enough. Take a few sheets, put them in a glass, and place them on the table with the dishes you want to serve.
photo: YouTube/garaarnayudha
According to him, you can use one to two glasses filled with papaya leaves. Just adjust it to your needs. If the food served is quite a lot, you can use more than one glass. In this way, the food is said to be safe and will not be landed on by flies, you know.
"It's that simple, the flies will run away," he said.
photo: YouTube/garaarnayudha
Papaya leaves are believed to be effective in preventing insects from coming. This has been proven in a number of studies. One of them in jurnal.radenfatah.ac.id, papaya leaves can function as a natural insecticide that is often used to repel insect pests on tomato plants. Wow, no wonder flies immediately run away when there are papaya leaves, huh?
This video has received a lot of enthusiasm from netizens. In addition to receiving various comments, this upload has also been watched thousands of times after being shared in 2021.
"Can it be used for fruit flies?" asked YouTube/ifan fahrodin.
"Here, Mala, the fly landed on the leaf," said YouTube/Ardy Heriyah.
"That's true," concluded YouTube/Rendy Ibonk.
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