How to clean fruits and vegetables to reduce the retention of agricultural medicine? Experts teach you 6 basic methods

[Text and picture/Excerpt from "Real Violence, Don't Let the Poison to You" published by Shang and Zhou dynasties, author Yang Ruihong] Can food be directly cleaned and disinfected? Generally, common food washing products on the market...


[Text and picture/Excerpt from "Real Violence, Don't Let the Poison to You" published by Shang and Zhou dynasties, author Yang Ruihong]

Can food be directly cleaned and disinfected?

Generally, common food washing products on the market include dishwashing agents and automatic dishwashing agents, fruit and vegetable cleaning agents have also appeared in recent years, as well as disinfection products such as hypochlorous acid.

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For example, raw ready-to-eat foods such as raw fruits and vegetables, raw water products, or some ingredients that cannot be treated with heat-bacterial sterilization, they will need to be sterilized through sterilizing ingredients. Otherwise, eating them may lead to food poisoning and will be more threatening to people. Therefore, this type of disinfectant is approved for use and has a legal reserved amount. We can check the usage rules of the front table column in the legal regulations.

The Food and Drug Administration Department of the Ministry of Health and Welfare believes that food detergents are chemicals that are directly used in contact with food, and the correct use is closely related to the lives of the people. Therefore, for food detergents, they are also managed in accordance with the Food Safety Hygiene Management Law. The markings, publicity or advertising of food detergents must comply with Article 28 of the Food Safety Law, and there must be no incorrect, exhortation or prone to misunderstandings.

From the labeling requirements, we can understand that food washing agents can only be marked as "natural" or "organic". If any labeling is illegal. Moreover, it cannot be marked as "food-level" or "nontoxic". The most correct and clever way to choose food detergents is to carefully read product marks and make correct choices. Secondly, it is necessary to know the correct way to use the detergent and the necessity of using the detergent.

Overuse of washing with a washing agent, and even use these washing agents to clean vegetables or fruits because of concern about the chemicals left behind on the vegetables and fruits consumed, sometimes it will increase the possible retention of chemical substances in the washing agent, which will have a greater impact on the environment. As for how to properly clean and process fruits and vegetables to reduce agricultural drug retention, it can be roughly divided into six basic methods according to the type of medicine applied when planting the crop. Please refer to the list on the right page, or see the book "Correctly Washing Vegetables and Removing Agricultural Drugs".

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