Tips on cleaning vegetables

How can we make the vegetables we eat clean and hygienic? The following Xiaobian tells you a few tips for cleaning vegetables.

Salt water soaking: Washing vegetables with water is a lot of work. Waste of water is a waste of time. It is better to waste salt. Soak the vegetable solution in light salt water for one hour and wash it off with water. Salt should not be too high, otherwise the vegetable's moisture will be gone.

Alkaline water soaking: We eat vegetables will bring a lot of Pesticides, these pesticides are some organic phosphorus pesticides, in the alkaline environment of organic phosphorus can be quickly decomposed, and more to use alkaline water to clean vegetables can remove some pesticides. Usually 500ml of water can be added to the 5 to 10 grams of edible alkali, bubble for fifteen minutes.

It can also be hot with boiling water. Because carbamate insecticides will accelerate decomposition as temperature increases, pesticide residues that are difficult to dispose of by other methods can be effectively removed by this method. Generally, they can be soaked in boiling water for about 2 minutes. Then remove and rinse with water to cook.

Sunlight: After 5 minutes of exposure to sunlight, residual organic chlorine and mercury will drop by about 60%. So most of the vegetables we buy back will be put in the sun for a while.

Wash with wash rice. Taomi Shui is acidic and can decompose some pesticides to make them lose their toxicity. Soaking them for about ten minutes is all right.