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😉 Hello everyone! Friends, do you know how to properly wash fruits and vegetables?
Many will think: what a stupid question, even children know this. But most of us just rinse the gifts of nature with tap water for a few seconds. Many do not wash tangerines, grapefruits, bananas, avocados, mangoes and pineapples at all. It is not right!
How to wash vegetables and fruits
Eating fruits and vegetables on a regular basis is very important for your health. Rich in minerals, vitamins, protein from legumes and, of course, fiber, they help our body to function properly and saturate it with useful substances. Most vegetables and fruits are low in calories, you cannot do without them on fasting days.
Absolutely all fruits must be thoroughly washed, not only in order to remove sand and earth from them. But also to clean them of all kinds of pesticides and small boogers.
If you want to eat an apple or carrot raw, you need to consider peeling it. In addition to the usual washing with water, disinfectants should be used. In addition to the fact that the products during cultivation could be treated with pesticides, they could be touched by pests, and in addition, numerous visitors to supermarkets or markets.
If fruits or vegetables are consumed after being cooked – stewed, boiled, and so on – you may worry less about washing them as the heat kills bacteria. But don’t forget to wash your dried fruit!
Various worms and boogers like to hide in raspberries
My fruits and vegetables are correct
Friends, take seriously the question of how to properly wash fruits and vegetables. It is not difficult at all, it is more difficult to be treated for poisoning, helminthic and intestinal diseases.
Use a colander when washing. You can also find a novelty in household goods stores – nets for greens and fruits, in which they can then be left to dry. The latter is very convenient.
Oranges, tangerines, lemons, grapefruits and other citrus fruits are poured over with boiling water (to get rid of surface preservatives), then washed with cold, always running water.
Many products, especially those imported from other countries, are covered with paraffin to maintain freshness. It is better to wash them with a brush, which will remove the wax, in warm soapy water, and then rinse well with running cold water.
If you wash berries or root vegetables for consumption by children, or just want to additionally protect yourself from harmful substances and microbes, soak them for a while in cool water. If you see that a purchased fruit (especially, again, foreign) has a beautiful flawless peel, it is better to peel it.
Washed fruits can lose their beneficial properties faster, so it is better to consume them after washing soon.
It is recommended to use knives, graters and other stainless steel devices for cleaning and cutting various fruits.
Yellow spots under the skins of commercial vegetables may indicate that they were grown with a lot of nitrates. It is best not to consume these foods at all or soak them in salt water for at least 24 hours.
In addition to soapy water, it cleans well with a solution of wine vinegar or lemon. It is also effective to soak the fruits in a soda solution for a quarter of an hour, then rinse with clean water.
There is no need to wash white cabbage (if it is not cracked). It is enough to remove the outer leaves and stump (nitrates can be concentrated in it).
Before rinsing, greens and lettuce must be sorted out, removing the remaining roots, damaged parts. The lower parts near the roots are cut off. After that, the greens are placed in a container with water and wait until the dirt settles.
You can change the water several times, then once again rinse the greens well under cold running water and dry them.
Melons and watermelons are washed under running water with a brush or hands.
Root crops that grow in the ground (potatoes, beets, radishes, carrots and others) are washed like this. First, they are cleaned of the earth by placing them in warm water for 10-15 minutes. Then, with a brush, thoroughly remove the dirt from the vegetables and rinse first with warm and then cold water.
Farmer’s advice
Helpful advice from a farmer on how to remove pesticides from vegetables and fruits. Prepare a 3: 1 solution of water and vinegar. This solution is able to remove 97% of harmful bacteria.
Place fruits or vegetables in a container with prepared solution for 15 minutes. Then rinse them with water. You can put the solution in a spray bottle and process the fruit, rinse with water after 10 minutes.
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