Tips on fruit and vegetable wash

We love these rainbow colored fruits and veggies, which complete our life with fresh and energy. Quite sure that fruits and vegetable are best eaten raw, because it keeps vitamins damage to a minimum and natural flavors to a maximum. How can we confirm a healthy daily intake with less harmful pesticides and fertilizer residues left? Actually there are many different brands of store-bought wash to make a quick cleaning, but I do not take it as my top choice. Here provides you some tips on fruit and vegetable wash, giving you a cheaper and more entertaining washing experience.

Produce classified to be washed

You may classify the fruits and vegetable into different groups in accordance with its property. Take its appearance as an example, the produce bought from supermarket can be divided into hard-skinned fruits and veggies and soft-skinned fruits and veggies.

What to prepare

• Vinegar- helps to dissolve the wax, pesticide and other dirt on the surface of fruits and vegetables
• Spray bottle
• Water

Dealing with hard-skinned fruits and veggies

Fruits and vegetables like apples and cucumber with hard skin show a protective appearance. And it seems to be an easier way to get them clean.

• Wash your hands and equipment at first.
• Spray the mixture of vinegar and water onto the surface of fruits and vegetables.
• Keep a 2-minutes interval and then rinse it under cool running tap water.

My approach to a thorough cleaning is to scrub the surface of apples with a knife.

Dealing with soft-skinned fruits and veggies

Fruits and vegetables with soft and vulnerable skin come to be a much longer washing process, for the bacteria and dust may attach firmly onto its surface and not easy to be found.

This time it would be better to soak fruits and vegetables into the water-vinegar mixture in order to create a comprehensive and lasting cleaning guarantee. Wait for about 5 minutes and then rinse the liquid remained on the surface carefully.

Note that mushroom and berries are not need to soak into water, just put them under running water to avoid further spoiling.

Pay more attention to salad or leafy greens wash

Dealing with leafy greens requires due care, for its outer leaves and root end should be removed. Soak the leaves into water for about 3 minutes to remove dirt and grime completely.

Timing wash

It doesn’t sounds like a good habit to wash the fruits and vegetables immediately when you have just bought them. The longer time the produce covered with moisture, the less fresh it will be. Therefore, you may store fruits and vegetables into refrigerator and do a complete wash when you are ready to have a try.

After making a good washing of fruits and vegetables, you may use Collapsible stainless steel vegetable steamer (buy at Amazon) for further clean storage. The adjustable size suits for different size of pots and pans, which makes a assuring cooking.

Hope you have picked useful information for fruits and vegetables wash, if you have any questions, please edit in the comment boxed below.

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