Fruits, vegetables and vegetables are basic foods in a healthy diet, their properties are very important to us. However, some of these foods that are eaten raw may be more harmful than beneficial because they have been treated with pesticides or may contain bacteria and may endanger our health.
I want to share you some tips to clean fruits and vegetables before eating them.
- The first thing you can do is put them in a bucket full of water with a tablespoon of bicarbonate and another one of vinegar. It is not 100% effective in cleaning pesticides, but it can eliminate much of these toxic substances.
- External leaves that may be damaged or in poor condition must be removed, because disease-causing bacteria grow faster in those places.
- Remove and reject sections of fruits and vegetables with fungi, wounds, cuts or areas too ripe and damaged.
- Another very effective trick to eliminate toxic waste from fruits and vegetables is to remove the skin. Although many of the nutrients are present in the shells, it is also the part that is most affected by pesticides.
- Refrigerate cut fruits and vegetables immediately.
If you follow these instructions you will have the assurance that you will enter your body clean and safe fruits and vegetables which will make you more useful.