Eat Your Chocolates Before Flour Moths Indulge In Them

Quick, hide your chocolates!!! Or indulge in them while they are fresh before pantry moths get to them.

Pantry moths or flour moths, especially the Espestia kuehniella species, love chocolates. They feed on grain products like muesli, bakery, legumes, almonds, nuts and, you guessed it… rice as well.

If you’re Asian like me, there’s a high chance you have a ton of them in the kitchen, storage cabinets and so on. The caterpillars can chew through thin packaging.

So if you notice your grains sticking together with tiny webs or found some unexplained dust in your storage area, you may have an infestation.

Quick, hide your chocolates!!! Or indulge in them while they are fresh before pantry moths get to them.

Pantry moths or flour moths, especially the Espestia kuehniella species, love chocolates. They feed on grain products like muesli, bakery, legumes, almonds, nuts and, you guessed it… rice as well.

If you’re Asian like me, there’s a high chance you have a ton of them in the kitchen, storage cabinets and so on. The caterpillars can chew through thin packaging.

So if you notice your grains sticking together with tiny webs or found some unexplained dust in your storage area, you may have an infestation.

How Do We Keep Our Chocolates Safe?

#1 Store them in the fridge

Our fridge is air-tight, and it’s cold. This prevents the moths from infesting the chocolates and would kill the moth’s larvas.  Or store fresh grain products in air-tight containers.

#2 Don’t buy goods with defective packaging (especially grains)

Because it’s hard to spot the moth’s larvas with our naked eye. They are good at hiding too. There goods could have been infested without us noticing.

#3 Eat them fresh! 😆

Nothing beats eating our chocolates fresh while its flavours and aromas are at its best.