How to wash fruits and vegetables is the most effective?

In the market, the more experienced vegetable growers and fruit growers will definitely tell you
"Sweet water, fruit, the medicine must be sprayed five times!"
"We all pick the kind that looks bad."
"The little bird dares to eat, we only eat it!"
That's right! This article is going to discuss the fruits and vegetablesPesticide residues!

Pesticides are the product of an era. With the increasing demand for food, in order to increase production capacity, natural farming has been unable to meet the needs of the population explosion, so farmers began to use pesticides. As for pesticides, are they really bad? Not really, but it’s like humans taking drugs, The use of pesticides also needs to have certain specifications, and SOPs are made for the dosage, location, harvest period, etc., in order to minimize the impact of pesticides on people or the environment..

However, as consumers, we cannot clearly know the relevant information in terms of the current production and sales resume coverage. Therefore, this article wants to provide a simpler way to reduce the amount of pesticide residues on the fruits and vegetables. the amount!

The author refers to some past data and agro-food chemistry research published in 2017: "Effectiveness of Commercial and Homemade Washing Agents in Removing Pesticide Residues on and in Apples", this research obtainedRepresentatives of different types of pesticidesAs a detection indicator, and useCommon methods of cleaning cropsAs different variables, two different detection methods are used in the research:

1. Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) mapping
2. Liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC−MS/MS)

To obtain the real pesticide residues, and cross-compared the actual effects of the proposed methods, the research results show:

Commercial Clorox bleach solution,Unable toEffectively remove pesticide residues.

NaHCO₃ The solution can remove most surface pesticides,
And the removal effect is positively correlated with the soaking time.
However, various methods cannot effectively remove the pesticides that have penetrated into the inside of the peel.
(But NaHCO₃ The effect of the solution is still better)

And the NaHCO in the study₃ The cleaning method of the solution is:

Add 10 g of baking soda to 1 L of water, and soak the ingredients in this solution for about 15 minutes. After soaking, take it out and rinse with water..

Is the above approach very simple? Hope to help you all!