Do I need to wash the strawberries

What women hate most is having too many blackheads on their faces. Some people feel that the blackheads on their noses are like sesame seeds on strawberries, so many people are very careful when washing strawberries, for fear of not washing them thoroughly and getting an upset stomach. Some people feel that strawberries do not need to be washed and can be eaten directly after picking them from the strawberry vines. So do strawberries need to be washed? Here I will tell you in detail how to wash strawberries cleanly.

1. How to wash strawberries

It’s the strawberry season again. Everyone likes to eat tempting strawberries, right? However, these cute and delicate fruits are not easy to wash clean, and they cannot be washed too hard. What should we do? The general way people wash strawberries is to soak them in water and then remove the leaves on the top of the strawberries. It is said that the dirt will be soaked out by water and will be clean after washing. But after washing and soaking in water, most of the sweetness is gone. So how do you wash strawberries so that they are clean and don’t lose their sweetness?

1. When washing strawberries, do not remove the leaf tips. Even if you must, only remove the leaves and keep the petioles. This way, the strawberry flesh will not be exposed in direct contact with water.

Note: Do not remove the strawberry stems before washing them, so as to prevent pesticides and pollutants from penetrating into the fruit through the "wounds" during the soaking process, causing contamination.

2. Remove the leaves of the strawberries and rinse them with running tap water for a few minutes to remove most of the germs, pesticides and other contaminants on the surface of the strawberries. It can also make strawberries more sweet and rosy.

Note: Try not to soak the strawberries in water first, so as to prevent the pesticides from dissolving in the water and then being absorbed by the strawberries and seeping into the fruit.

3. Soak the strawberries in rice washing water for 3 minutes. The alkaline rice washing water can decompose pesticides. The rice flour in the rice washing water will take away dirt, dust, and other substances. This method can also be used to wash grapes.

4. Take a small basin of water, add appropriate amount of salt to make light salt water, and soak the strawberries in it for 3 minutes. The light salt water can make the insects and eggs attached to the surface of the strawberries float up, making them easier to be washed away by water, and it also has a certain disinfecting effect. Then rinse with running tap water. Rinse again with cold boiled water and the strawberries are clean.

Note: Try to avoid rubbing with your hands and never use detergent. The strawberries have almost no peel, and rubbing them will damage the peel, so the washed strawberries cannot be preserved at all. Detergents will penetrate into the flesh, so remember not to use detergents to clean strawberries.