What are the steps for washing vegetables?

It is quite common to grow your own vegetables at home, because the vegetables you grow yourself have less pesticides and are purely green. However, sometimes climate change can cause damage to the vegetables, and when we cannot eat them, we have to go out and buy vegetables. There are pesticide residues in those vegetables. If you only rely on rinsing with clean water, it is difficult to remove the unclean vegetables. Washing vegetables is a great art. As housewives at home, you must pay attention to the method of washing vegetables.

Methods/Steps

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Salt water cleaning method

After buying the vegetables, pick them clean and wash them with clean water. Then add a little salt to the vegetable washing basin, dilute it with clean water, soak the vegetables in the light salt water for about half an hour, and then rinse them with clean water. Especially for vegetables such as cabbage and cauliflower, they must be soaked in light salt water to better remove pesticide residues.

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Baking Soda Cleaning Method

Buy a bag of baking soda or alkaline flour, pour an appropriate amount into the vegetable basin, soak the vegetables washed with clean water in it for a few minutes, then take them out and rinse them with clean water before cooking.

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Rice water cleaning method

The rice water at home has many uses. Perhaps what female friends know most is that it can be used to whiten the skin. Haha, in fact, rice water can also be used to wash vegetables. Similarly, soak the vegetables washed with clean water in rice washing water for about ten minutes, and then rinse them clean. This approach has a great effect on the pesticide residues in vegetables.

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Sun cleaning method

Don’t laugh, everyone. Dudu also laughed when he first heard about this method of washing vegetables. But now Dudu knows that it is not nonsense. If you don’t believe me, just ask the nutritionists. Some vegetables need to be exposed to sunlight appropriately, so that the pesticide residues in the vegetables will be partially decomposed.

There are many ways to wash vegetables, so be sure to choose a method that can wash them thoroughly. We must pay attention to the cleaning of vegetables and wash them carefully because all vegetables on the market now have pesticides. If they are not washed properly, it will be very troublesome. Eating vegetables with pesticides for a long time will cause great irritation to the body and can easily cause physical discomfort.