How do you wash vegetables/greens/fruit before you eat/cook them?

[jrhartley]

i just polish things like tomatoes,

 

[Lobo Tropical]

Hygiene

Using a bit of bleach is a much better practice than using plain tap water. I personally splurge on water from the botell?n because I prefer to be short on cash rather than complaining about gastritis. I've estimates as high as 80% or more of the population suffers from various degrees of gastritis. The cumulative effects of doing things like brushing your teeth with tap water, drinking and eating from glasses and plates that are still wet with dishwater, and indiscriminately patronizing random comedores and chimichurri stands (beware of their salad especially, even more than the meat that is "50 shades of gray") will put you on the wrong side of the intestinal parasite fence. I'm told it is a very uncomfortable place to be.

Of course food hygiene and refrigeration is important.
This includes maintaining the cooling chain, which prior to our purchase is out of our hands.
Meat such as chicken is rinsed in tap water, vinegar and cooked.
Vegetables I rinse in tap water and I brush my teeth with tap water.
I believe it is important for our immune system to get used to some of the local bacteria, without being stupid as Cholera is real.
Use common sense on street food.


Gut flora - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Is it possible to be too clean? Researchers say yes - Vitals

Colour of mince meat | NSW Food Authority


http://www.fantes.com/manuals/color_of_meat_and_poultry.pdf

Additives in Meat and Poultry Products | USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service

 

[Viajero]

Thank all.
I use a lot of vegetables, greens and fruits because I am into juicing.

How is this going? Are you getting good green veggies?

 

[PeterInBrat]

We routinely put cloro in the cistern and wash with tap water. That's prolly overkill because our water comes from a clean well on the top of a hill.

For sanitizing, you want about 1 Tablespoon(1/2oz) per gallon of water. So for a 50 gallon tank, you'd add 3 cups bleach. You do need to rinse it afterwards. Run the taps briefly during the sanitation until you smell the bleach and let it sit for a couple hours.