To be healthy, tightened and in good shape it is necessary to adhere to healthy nutrition! But it is necessary to focus the attention on how to benefit from vegetables and fruit to the maximum, for this purpose it is necessary to be able to wash them correctly!
Fruit and vegetables contain cellulose which to us betrays feeling of satiety and saves us from feeling of hunger and also huge amount of vitamins which our organism so needs! Use more these products, they to you will help to get rid of extra kilos and to improve the health! Before their use clean fruits from dust, dirt, microorganisms and also from toxic chemicals, harmful to our organism, which process them for protection of plants against diseases and mean insects.
Follow the basic rules of washing of vegetables and fruit:
- Import fruit and vegetables generally cover with wax or paraffin for protection against mean insects, the best safety of a product and of course for giving of luster, beautiful "candy wrapper" for buyers. To get rid of this layer, it is necessary to use a brush and soap water. Or safer option, it is possible to skim covered with wax by means of a knife. But before it is necessary to wash a fruit since there is a risk to bring dirt from a dirty peel on fruit / vegetable.
- Wash dense, firm fruit and vegetables by means of a brush under a stream of flowing water.
- At a white cabbage we delete the top layers of leaves, reaching fresh and clean. In cabbage stump the most part of nitrates accumulates therefore at once we cut off it and we throw out.
- It is more difficult to wash out greens. First, at first we get rid of the roots which withered and the turned yellow leaves. Secondly, we gather cold water in capacity and we wash. Change water several times while at the bottom of our ware there is no sand left. Thirdly, we wash a baking plate the crane with cold water.
- Drench citrus fruit with boiled water, thus, you will get rid of the preservatives which are on a fruit surface. Later rinse fruit with cold flowing water. We wash out other fruit under the crane with cold water and with soap.
- Dried fruits the baking plate the crane is surely carefully washed with cold water, later drench with boiled water, that you will get rid of preservatives.
- Berries previously to examine, remove spoiled. We start water procedures. For example, a cranberry we spread dense berries in a colander and we wash with cold water. Soft berries, for example, strawberry, without tearing off green leaves, we place in the container with cold water for several minutes that the earth and dirt could sink on a bottom. After accurately we take out berries and we display on a towel that all moisture was absorbed and berries dried up.
- We divide grapes into smaller clusters and, without tearing off from branches, carefully we wash away a baking plate flowing water all dirt.
Useful tips:
- Don't forget that at clarification of gifts of the nature from dirt and dust, the longer you wash them, the less vitamins B them remain therefore don't drag out this process.
- It is necessary to use these products right after washing since the thin skin is damaged, the fruit begins to spoil quicker and loses the useful properties.
- It is more convenient to wash by means of special grids, colanders or a usual sieve. Use when cleaning a knife from stainless steel since it is protected from oxidation in interaction with a product and won't allow to lose useful properties of vegetable/fruit.
- If during the cleaning and removal of the top layer of vegetable you found yellow or dark stains, then it means that it contains a large amount of nitrates. It is better not to eat such vegetable.
- Choose fruit on a smell, don't hesitate and smell it! For example, apple has pleasant fragrant aroma if felt, then safely get this product, it precisely is processed and safe nothing for consumption.
- Try to get out to the market and to get fruits from grandmothers who have the garden and a kitchen garden. So you will precisely get a natural and useful product, the real gift of the nature!