Fresh ant eggs are advertised as a good medicine for health and expensive, nearly 500,000 VND / kg. But this year, the price of ant eggs has halved. Many small businesses sell around the internet market.
Every 3-4 lunar month is considered the season of fresh ant eggs. At that time, ant eggs are often very fertile. After this time, the ant nests will either die or the eggs will hatch into young. Therefore, people in mountainous areas take advantage of the season when ant eggs go to the forest for food or sale.
According to the experience of ethnic minorities in Tuyen Quang, not all species of ants can take fresh eggs for processing. The kind of ants that take fresh eggs must be nursery ants or brown ants for the eggs to be fragrant and ripe. Particularly, the black ant nests have a bad smell and do not eat. 
Fresh ant eggs were once marketed as a health remedy. After taking ant eggs from the forest, the eggs will be brought to the sieve and cleaned, removing impurities, leaves and ants mixed in it. After this stage, the new plump egg seeds are packed, sold or processed into many unique and delicious dishes. Ms. Tran Thu Hang, 37 years old in Thuy Khue, Tay Ho (Hanoi), said that she is currently in the ant eggs season, so she actively collects fresh ant eggs from Na Hang (Tuyen Quang) people to Hanoi to sell to customers. gourmet. “These fresh batches of ants were shipped directly to Hanoi. Every day we only get a limited amount, about 15-20 kg of ant eggs. Because the quantity is too small, we have to immediately pay the bill to the customer who arrives there. Customers ordered a lot but did not have enough fresh ant eggs to pay ”. According to Ms. Hang, fresh ant eggs can be processed into many delicious and nutritious dishes such as ant egg rolls, fried ant eggs, ant egg cakes and especially ant egg sticky rice. “Customers who buy fresh ant eggs can be used to make sticky rice, make cakes, wrap leaves to eat like salad, cook porridge, eat with rice cakes, mix eggs or minced meat to fry, … In general, in many Ant eggs sticky rice dish and ant egg cake are the most popular. Or someone soaked in wine with ant eggs ”, Ms. Hang asserted. 
There are many dishes made from ant eggs 
Some localities like Tuyen Quang, Bac Kan, and Cao Bang people make ants egg cakes 
Or fried egg rolls with ants 
Ant eggs are packed into bags 
Fresh forest ant eggs are quite expensive, many people buy frozen food gradually. She added, buying fresh ant eggs, customers can freeze and use gradually over a few months. Currently, the price of a kilogram of fresh ant eggs is 220,000 VND. Meanwhile, 2-3 years ago, this price was twice as expensive, about 450.00 VND / kg. This is because this year, due to the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic, the demand for fresh ant eggs has decreased significantly, and ant eggs are in good condition ”. Herbalist Vu Quoc Trung (Member of the Vietnamese Traditional Medicine Association) said that fresh ant eggs are collected from ant nests in the forest, so they are rich in protein, nutritious and help improve health. However, because they are rich in protein, they can easily cause allergies to people who eat. Not to mention, ants often live in humid places in the forest, so they can contain many parasites and bacteria that pose a high risk of poisoning when eaten. This physician recommended, people should not eat out of curiosity and curiosity. Especially those with a history of allergies to insects. In particular, ants should not be eaten when they are not cleaned carefully.
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