How to Wash off Pesticides from Fruits and Vegetables
It takes 70%-80% of pesticide residues away. The fruits like apples, grapes, peaches, guava, mangoes, plums and pears and fruity vegetables like tomatoes and brinjal can be disinfected using this method. Make sure you are washing them two to three times for effective results.
Here are the 10 best ways to Clean the Produce. It’s pretty easy!
The organic apple scrap vinegar can be used in the similar way as white vinegar is used. The benefit of using this flavour of vinegar is – it will not worsen the taste and smell for the porous foods.
This solution can be used to wash all veggies and fruits. Mix lemon juice and water and let the food soak the solution. Wash with water to get the desired harmless foodstuff.
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The farmers, growing the green products are using the heavy amount of chemicals to serve the market with the mass quantity. These pesticides may kill the insects and help farmers to keep their crops healthy but for human beings, it in harmful in all ways.
Apples, strawberries, grapes, celery, peaches, spinach, sweet bell peppers, imported nectarines, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, imported snap peas and potatoes are all in maximum containing pesticide list.
You should be careful when consuming as they contain a number of different pesticide residues and have high concentrations of pesticides relative to other items. For example, every sample of imported nectarines and 99% of apple samples tested positive for at least one pesticide residue.
The cleanest fruits and veggies, which are least likely to hold pesticides, include avocados, sweet corn, pineapples, cabbage, frozen sweet peas, onions, asparagus, mangoes, papayas, kiwis, eggplant, grapefruit, cantaloupe, cauliflower and sweet potatoes. Avocados are the cleanest, with only 1% showing any detectable pesticides.
These near-perfect looking fruits and vegetables can cause health risks to human, especially to the kids. This made me write about the ways to remove the pesticides easily from the fruits and vegetables. If you want to learn these effective and easy tricks, read ahead!
Wash the food in a right way
Cold washing
It takes 70%-80% of pesticide residues away. The fruits like apples, grapes, peaches, guava, mangoes, plums and pears and fruity vegetables like tomatoes and brinjal can be disinfected using this method. Make sure you are washing them two to three times for effective results.
Here are the 10 best ways to Clean the Produce. It’s pretty easy!
Scrub it!
Keep a plastic made brush/scrubber as shown in picture only for use of cleaning the vegetables like Potatoes, Beet Roots, Cucumber i.e. the vegetables which have thick skin.
The White Vinegar
Vinegar is most commonly recommended by experts to clean the produce.
Keep the food in vinegar-water solution, containing 4 parts of water and 1 part of vinegar. After 15 minutes, take them out and wash with clean cold water. You can observe the colour change due to absorption of toxic elements if they are present in the food.
It will be better if you are using organic white vinegar for this purpose. The porous and fragile foods should not be treated with this solution, as they may absorb the taste and smell of vinegar. You can use this method of cleaning for Berries.
Keep the food in vinegar-water solution, containing 4 parts of water and 1 part of vinegar. After 15 minutes, take them out and wash with clean cold water. You can observe the colour change due to absorption of toxic elements if they are present in the food.
It will be better if you are using organic white vinegar for this purpose. The porous and fragile foods should not be treated with this solution, as they may absorb the taste and smell of vinegar. You can use this method of cleaning for Berries.
Peeling
This is probably the safest and most easy way of making the food healthy. Most of the dirt and germs reside in the outermost part of the fruits or vegetables. Peeling off the outer skin will, therefore, solve the problem and you will be able to present the actually healthy food to your family.
Scrub with Baking Soda
Sprinkle baking soda on the eatables featuring hard skin. Rub gently to make it work. Finally, wash with water to get the non-toxic food.
Use Apple Cider Vinegar
The organic apple scrap vinegar can be used in the similar way as white vinegar is used. The benefit of using this flavour of vinegar is – it will not worsen the taste and smell for the porous foods.
Lemon/Citric Acid Wash
This solution can be used to wash all veggies and fruits. Mix lemon juice and water and let the food soak the solution. Wash with water to get the desired harmless foodstuff.
Hope you have liked it ! Thank you
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