Soap for vegetables and fruits. Video: How to wash fruits and vegetables? How to use natural products for washing fruits and vegetables

To prepare almost any dish or dessert, we need vegetables and fruits. Before you start cooking, the fruits should be thoroughly washed. This is especially true for those fruits and vegetables that we eat with the peel. How to wash them properly and, most importantly, with what? Answers to all questions in our special material.

Any fruits and vegetables, even if they are from your garden and garden, must be thoroughly washed before use. This is necessary in order to rid the fruits of dirt, dust, microbes and residues of various chemicals that process fruits and vegetables during the growing process. If the products are poorly washed, then there is a high probability that harmful microorganisms will get into the food, and then into your intestines, which can lead to very disastrous consequences.

There are several rules that will help you properly wash vegetables and fruits. In the event that the vegetables were grown in your own garden, and you know for sure that no harmful substances were used during cultivation, then it will be enough just to rinse them under cool running water. But if these are purchased fruits and they contain various pesticides, they were treated with wax and other means, then a special tool for washing vegetables and fruits is needed here.

Bought fruits and vegetables, the quality of which you are not very sure of, first of all, you need to wash off the wax. This can be done by any means, which we will discuss below, and in this case, you can use a special soft brush to help remove wax or other substance.

It is important to mention here that you should have a separate brush in your kitchen for washing vegetables and fruits, which you will not use anywhere else.

Before you start washing fruits or vegetables for children, the product should be soaked in cold water for a while. Just enough water is needed to completely cover the fruit. This will get rid of various harmful substances and then they can be easily washed before use. It is worth noting that it is necessary to soak and wash the fruits only in a limited amount. Wash as many pieces of vegetables or fruits as you need at the moment. It is not worth washing the fruits for the future, as they will quickly deteriorate.

Vegetables should be cleaned of dirt before washing. This can be done under running water, using a regular brush. If you need to wash the cauliflower, then it is first divided into inflorescences. Root crops are simply cleaned of dirt, after soaking in warm and then in cool water. Cucumbers, tomatoes should be soaked exclusively in cool water. It is better to scald citrus fruits with boiling water first, and then start washing. Melon, watermelon or pumpkin do not need to be washed first. Apples, pears, grapes, plums and peaches are best pre-soaked in cool water.

The best folk remedies

Many housewives advise using the most common soap or gel that is designed for washing dishes to wash fruits. We do not recommend using such products, since they contain chemicals, the remains of which can penetrate the body and provoke severe poisoning. You can not even use washing or baby soap, as many do. All the same, the particles of substances contained in the soap remain on the peel, it is very difficult to completely remove them.

The best tool that every kitchen has is lemon juice and the most common baking soda. In such a tandem, products are often used to clean any surfaces in the kitchen, since soda in combination with citrus fruit juice perfectly eliminates grease stains. This tool will also perfectly clean the skin of fruits and vegetables, ridding them of harmful bacteria and more. And most importantly, this tool is completely safe for the body of any person.

To prepare it, you will need a glass of plain water and one tablespoon of tea soda and lemon juice. We mix everything thoroughly and get a ready-made product for washing fruits. To make it easier to use, we recommend placing it in a clean spray bottle. Shake well before each use.

It is best to store this mixture in the refrigerator. It is very easy to use. Rinse any fruit with water, then spray our product and leave it like that for a couple of minutes. Rinse thoroughly, using a brush if necessary.

The most common table vinegar will also help in this difficult matter. When choosing vinegar, pay attention to the fact that it should not be a concentrate. You should use a maximum of twelve percent vinegar, which can be eaten immediately. We dilute it in equal proportions with purified water. In the resulting solution, you can safely wash your favorite fruits. Then rinse them with running cold water. Vinegar easily rids fruits of various plaque, microbes, dirt and other harmful substances.

If there is no soda or vinegar in the house, then the most common salt is quite suitable. In order for it to help thoroughly wash the fruits, a solution should be made from it. For one liter of warm water, you will need exactly four large spoons of any salt. As soon as the salt crystals are completely dissolved, you can safely wash vegetables or fruits in this solution. After that, do not forget to rinse them with clean water and only then they can be consumed.

In order not only to clean the fruit of dirt, dust and wax, but also to disinfect it, you can treat it with hydrogen peroxide. For a liter of warm water, you need only one large spoonful of this product. Mix everything thoroughly and wash vegetables or fruits with the resulting liquid.

Store rating

Oddly enough, it sounds, but today in almost any store you can find a special tool for washing vegetables and fruits. Now you can find a Japanese, Korean or even English remedy that is made from safe ingredients and does an excellent job.

• One of the popular remedies that receives positive reviews is Kyukyuto. The tool perfectly copes with wax, removes various contaminants, has an antibacterial effect and does not leave a feeling of “stickiness” on the fruit at all. As part of this Japanese remedy, there are no chemicals, only plant and mineral substances.
• Bentley Organic- a wonderful product from manufacturers from the UK, which contains natural acids. The tool perfectly eliminates dirt and germs. In addition, it is well washed off the peel of the fruit and does not leave any odors.

• Mako Clean- detergent for fruits and vegetables from Israeli manufacturers. The product is available in a convenient bottle with a spray nozzle, it is easy to spray, so you can even take it with you. The product contains only natural ingredients, including aloe vera juice and various food acids. After washing, it does not leave any odors and one hundred percent does its job.

• Sodasan- This is a remedy from a well-known German brand. The product is great for washing vegetables and fruits. It is conveniently sprayed on the surface of the fruit and is very economically consumed. Perfectly removes wax, dirt and traces of various harmful chemicals. It is quite suitable even for washing berries. Contains in its composition only natural and safe substances.

For information on how and why you need to wash vegetables and fruits, see below.

Detergent for washing fruits and vegetables
Citrus Magic, Veggie Wash, 16 fl oz (473 ml) - $6.99

Spray in a convenient spray bottle.
I liked the size, that this is not a liter bandura, which you don’t know in which box to stick. This is a neat bottle with a beautiful design.
The product has a light citrus scent.
The consistency is like soapy water, but it doesn't foam very much.
It also seemed to me very concentrated (even in comparison with the similar one from Attitude (wrote)), i.e. This is such a real solution, and not just some water. 1 spray is enough to wash a few apples, because it spreads very well over the fruit, completely enveloping the surface. After rinsing off, nothing remains of the product - no smell, no film.

Mode of application drawn on the package: spray the product on the fruit / vegetable, hold for 20-30 seconds, rinse with water. You can mix with water and soak fruits / vegetables, herbs, berries, even strawberries in this solution. I do.
As part of no harmful: phosphates, phthalates, harmful preservatives and SLS. But there are real soft surfactants (due to which the product has a cleansing effect), plant extracts and other auxiliary additives. The tool promises to cleanse products of waxes and other agricultural chemicals.

I will show the result clearly, using the example of cherries bought on the market.
She poured her tray and filled it with water to wash it, even pobbled a little. The photo shows that the cherry seems to be absolutely clean, the water is clear ...

She drained the water, sprinkled Citrus Magic on the cherry, held it for half a minute, poured water on top.
The result is completely different... You see how much wax was washed off (and it is not yet known what) from the surface of a seemingly "clean" cherry...

And cherry too :)

By the way, if you simply sprinkle Citrus Magic into a glass of clean water, then there will be no film or streaks on the surface; all the filth that is visible in the photo above is precisely from the surface of the fruit that we eat if we don’t wash it well with special means! Well, do you still think that you do not need such funds?))

Olga Nikitina

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Even children know that fruits and vegetables should always be washed before eating to remove dirt, germs and chemical residues that the plants have been treated with during their growth. And so that a vegetable salad or fruit dessert does not become a “springboard” to the hospital, the approach to food processing must be individual.

General rules for washing vegetables and fruits

To wash away dirt and dust from fruits and vegetables, rinsing under running water is usually sufficient.

But if the product also contains harmful microorganisms, pesticides, traces of processing for storage (wax and paraffin) or even “thermonuclear” chemistry used to protect plants, plain water is indispensable. We need more heavy artillery here.

Video: How to wash fruits and vegetables?

First of all, let's talk about the general rules for processing purchased (picked, dug up) vegetables and fruits:

• If you are sure of the purity of vegetables and fruits, because you brought them from your own garden, then you can get by with running water. For purchased ones (especially imported ones), the rules are different. First of all, we get rid of waxes and paraffin. To do this, wash fruits and vegetables in water with a separate brush, and then rinse under the tap.
• If fruits and vegetables are bought for kids, first soak the future salad or dessert in cold water (at the same time we will get rid of the share of harmful substances inside the fruit, if any), and then rinse in the usual way and cut off the skin. Of course, for domestic apples this “trick” will be superfluous, but for imported glossy ones it is highly recommended.
• If you have washed fruits and vegetables, then eat them immediately or use them for jams, salads, etc. . Do not store them for a long time after washing. Firstly, they quickly deteriorate, and secondly, they lose vitamins and other useful substances.
• When cleaning, use only stainless steel appliances.
• If there are yellow spots on vegetables (zucchini, cucumbers or potatoes), get rid of them immediately and without hesitation. Such spots are a sign of excess nitrates. Nitrate levels can be reduced by soaking potatoes or carrots in salted water for a day. But along with nitrates, you will also get rid of vitamins.
• Fruits and vegetables prepared for baby food , it is recommended to wash not with running water, but with distilled water.
• It is strictly forbidden to use dish detergent or ordinary soap for fruits and vegetables. Chemical components can get under the skin of the fruit and cause poisoning.

Means for washing vegetables and fruits - store and home

Whoever advises you to use laundry soap - or any dishwashing detergent - for processing vegetables and fruits, confirming the effectiveness of the classic "well, you see, nothing happened to me" - do not listen! A categorical ban on these products when washing fruits! They are not rinsed out to the end (even if it is a children's "ECO-remedy"), and the components of the product are sent along with fruits and vegetables straight to your body.

What means to use if "just rinse" did not fit?

Home Remedies:

• Baby soap without additives, dyes and fragrances.
• Lemon juice + soda. For a "cleaning agent" mix a spoonful of soda and a spoonful of lemon juice in a glass of water. Next, pour the solution into a clean spray bottle, spray on the fruits, wait 2-3 minutes and rinse in the usual way. After use, hide the product in the refrigerator.
• Vinegar. We take the product in half with ordinary water, stir, wash the fruits in the solution and rinse under running tap water. Helps in wax removal and disinfection.
• Salt. For 1 liter of water - 4 tablespoons of ordinary salt.
• Hydrogen peroxide. With it, you not only clean the fetus, but also disinfect it. The tool is used simply: on a container with water - 1 tbsp / l of the drug.

Professional tools:

Yes, yes, there are some. It's just that they are not firmly established in the domestic market yet.

The application scheme is simple and does not require unnecessary actions with soda, peroxide, etc.

So, the best are recognized ...

• Bentley organic. This composition contains natural acids (approx. - malic, lactic and citric), as well as aloe vera. High efficiency against bacteria and microbes - 100% neutralization of the entire "infection".
• Safeguard Fruit Veggie Wash. In this "set" of components: plant extracts and glycerin, emulsifiers, aloe vera, and citrus essential oils. Cleansing - 100 times more effective than ordinary water.
• Mako Clean. Similar in composition to the 1st product, but less expensive. Our domestic product with high efficiency and absolute safety.
• Eat cleaner. An ideal tool for those who like to eat vegetables / fruits in nature. Represents napkins with special impregnation: vegetable glycerin, natural (natural) washing components, sea salt, citric acid and sodium citrate. The very case when you can do without washing the fruit (just wipe it with a napkin).
• Sodasan. Special liquid "soap" for fruits and vegetables. It is applied to the fruit and then washed off with plenty of water. Ingredients: saponified vegetable oils, classic soda, fruit acids and grapefruit extract. The tool is recommended to be used for the treatment of melons and watermelons.

Of course, these funds are more expensive than we would like, but their consumption is very small, and one bottle of the product is usually enough for a very long time.

How to wash various vegetables - instructions for the hostess

Each vegetable has its own processing method!

For example…

• White cabbage. As a rule, it is not even washed. 2-3 layers of leaves are simply removed from it (until clean and fresh), and then the stalk is cut out. It was 20-25 years ago that children considered cabbage stalks a delicacy and waited for their mother to start “cutting” cabbage. Today, the stump is an unequivocal source of nitrates (it is in it that they are collected).
• Cauliflower. On this vegetable, we clean all the darkened areas with a knife (or a vegetable grater), and then disassemble it into inflorescences and dip it in salted water for 10 minutes so that all the worms that adore cauliflower flare up to the surface.
• Kohlrabi rinse and free from its skin.
• Artichokes. First, the stem is cut off from these vegetables, then all damaged leaves are removed, and only after that they are washed in running water, setting aside the baskets and bases of artichoke leaves for preparing dinner (note - the rest is not eaten).
• Roots(approx. - horseradish and radishes, carrots and potatoes, beets, etc.) first soak in warm water and then brush off the ground. Next - rinse in warm and then in cold water, and then remove the peel.
• At the corn first remove the leaves, and then rinse under the tap.
• Cucumbers and tomatoes (as well as green vegetables, eggplants, peppers and squash) soak for a short time in cold water (if there is a suspicion of nitrates, you can use salted water), then rinse under the tap.
• asparagus usually cleaned in a wide bowl and with a sharp knife, starting from the head of the vegetable - and along its base. Immediately after cleaning - rinse thoroughly under the tap.

Proper washing of fruits and berries

Even if you personally picked fruits from trees, this does not mean that you can burst them just by rubbing them on your shirt.

The approach to fruits is no less special than to vegetables.

• Citrus. Usually they are sold shiny from wax and other substances. And even after washing, they remain a little sticky. Therefore, you should first scald the lemon (orange, etc.) with boiling water from the kettle, and then rinse it under the tap.
• As for pineapples , they are washed with leaves under the tap - cold water. Then let it dry on its own.
• Melons and watermelons, pumpkins and zucchini wash with a special or home remedy in the bathroom (or sink) with a brush.
• Pomegranates, pears with apples, apricots with peaches and plums soak briefly in cold water and rinse under the tap in the usual way.
• Grape it is recommended to put under a tap shower in a bowl or colander and, dividing into clusters, rinse.
• For dried fruits be sure to soak. But first - a shower with boiling water.
• Berries like grapes , put in a colander in 1 layer (do not pile in a big pile!) And leave it under the "shower" for 4-5 minutes. If there are doubts about the purity of the berries (for example, strawberries with earth on the skin or too sticky cherries), then we lower the colander with them into hot water, then into very cold water, then again into hot water and again into cold water. It would be enough.

Poorly washed greens are practically “Russian roulette”. Maybe lucky, maybe not.

Video: How to wash greens? Part 1

Video: How to wash greens? Part 2

To stay alive and healthy, remember the rules for washing greens:

• Remove the roots, lower part of the stems (note - nitrates settle in them) and rotten parts.
• Rinse off visible dirt thoroughly under a faucet.
• And now we soak the greens in salt water (per 1 liter - 1 tbsp salt) for 15 minutes. All the dirt will settle on the bottom of the dish.
• Next, do not drain the water (!) , and carefully pull out the greens and transfer to a colander. Then rinse again (carefully!) And only then cut into a salad.

What else needs to be remembered?

1. The main danger is hidden between the leaves and at the junction of the stem with the branches (for example, helminth eggs or the remains of the earth with fertilizers).
2. Lettuce celery can be soaked in cold / water for an hour and a half and then rinsed.
3. We first lower the nettle for 2-3 minutes in boiling water, and then cool it under running water.
4. We wash the green salad very carefully (according to statistics, they are most often "poisoned" with it). It is recommended to separate each sheet, tear off part of its base and then rinse it very carefully from 2 sides until the feeling of “slipperiness” disappears - that is, until it squeaks.

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Low-foaming acid cleaner for manual washing of vegetables, herbs, fruits by pre-soaking in the sink, as well as for use in special automatic machines.
Removes water-resistant stains, including wax deposits from fruits and vegetables.

Leaves no aftertaste or odor.

Means for washing vegetables, herbs and fruits is easily washed off with water.

Suitable for processing kitchen surfaces in contact with food.

Antibacterial action against gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria, fungicidal activity against yeast-like fungi of the genus Candida was confirmed by the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology.

Approved for use in healthcare facilities, preschool and school institutions, food industry and public catering enterprises.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE

Wash vegetables and fruits immediately before use. Before washing, sort vegetables and fruits, wash greens in disassembled form. Remove products with traces of decay and wrinkled. Drop food into solution. Depending on the degree of contamination of vegetables and fruits, withstand 10-20 minutes. Rinse with water.

CONCENTRATION OF DETERGENT SOLUTIONS

The concentration is selected according to the method of application of the product and the nature of the pollution.

Washing fruits and vegetables by hand

3-5 ml / 1 liter of water.

Washing vegetables in an automatic machine

2 ml / 1 l of water.

Surface washing

10 ml / 1 l of water. Prepare a solution, apply to the surface, wait 1-5 minutes. Rinse with water or wipe with a clean cloth dampened with water.

The concentrations of working solutions are controlled using indicator test strips "K-218".

PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES

Do not use for washing soft-skinned berries, mushrooms.

Keep out of the reach of children, away from food and medicines.

In case of freezing of the agent, with subsequent defrosting and stirring by shaking, consumer properties are preserved.

Packing: canister 5 l.

Expiration date: 24 months from the date indicated on the package

Means for washing fruits and vegetables have long ceased to be a whim, becoming an urgent need. If earlier we washed away only dirt, bugs and what, thanks to all this, developed and multiplied (is it really true once upon a time?!), now we have to get rid of transport wax, pesticides and who knows what else, unknown to the layman, but all the more formidable and harmful.

Now it's not a problem to buy fruit and vegetable detergent, but it's not a problem to make it yourself, although it will probably take you a couple of seconds more. As a reward, you will receive a completely transparent list of ingredients, the safety of which you can be sure.

There are two ways to wash fruits and vegetables: soaking and direct application by repeatedly spraying and rubbing on the affected object. I prefer the first one. Why?

Soaking is such a process that goes on without your direct participation than not a dream for a lazy person. The second method is optimal if you need to wash a couple of apples or pears. Then your efforts to prepare the bath will not pay off. But, again, spraying won't work if it's a bunch of grapes or a handful of berries. So I vote for baths.

It should be noted right away that washing fruits and vegetables significantly reduces their shelf life. So do not be lazy, wash them immediately before use. Otherwise, they must be completely dried, then moved to the refrigerator, but you should not test them for weekly strength.

The active ingredients for the destruction of everything and everything that our body should not consume will be vinegar, salt and citric acid. Let's leave the soda in reserve.

Vinegar- cheap, readily available and safe ingredient - contains acetic acid, which is responsible for the destruction of bacteria, mold and wax splitting. According to the manufacturers, it is capable of destroying 98 percent of bacteria.

Lemon contains citric acid, its slight drawback is that it is not sold with a percentage of this very acid, so there are always doubts. But he helps out a lot when vinegar, due to its specific smell, is undesirable.

Salt well known to us as a preservative. And she would not have reached this position if her participation in the destruction of bacteria was insignificant, right?

Any of the options below can be used as a bath or spray filler. In the second case, the exposure time is 20–30 seconds. After any treatment, fruits and vegetables should be washed under cool water.

200 ml water
70 ml vinegar (4.5 tablespoons)
Soaking time varies from 10 to 20 minutes. It will not be superfluous to interfere with them a couple of times.

200 ml water
30–40 g salt
Soaking time 10-15 minutes. Suitable for products that do not have a thick skin, such as lettuce, greens, cabbage, etc., if you are confused by the smell of vinegar.

200 ml water
Half a lemon
Soaking time 5-15 minutes (depending on the roughness of the skin). Suitable for berries where neither the smell of vinegar nor pickling is acceptable.

The active ingredients can be combined.