Don’t rinse produce with soap. ????
Don’t use detergents or special soaps to wash produce, unless you’re using soap made of natural and organic materials. Dish soap has harmful compounds that can easily penetrate the skin of fruits and vegetables, which may end up doing more harm than pesticides.”
Anyone know what is organic soap ?
Regular detergents have some toxic ingredients which can soak into the cells of vegetables. I can’t even imagine washing produce with hand soap, which mostly have artificial fragrances and many other unpleasant ingredients in them.
I would recommend washing produce in water with some white vinegar in it. There are specific produce washing products but as I am dirt poor I never looked into them. I try to avoid the worst produce on that list, haven’t looked at it for a while.
Dirty Dozen (2019)
Below is EWG’s 2019 Dirty Dozen:
Strawberries
Spinach
Kale
Nectarines
Apples
Grapes
Peaches
Cherries
Pears
Tomatoes
Celery
Potatoes
I’ve read about the junk they grow potatoes with, plus they dunk them in something that kills them so they won’t sprout. I noticed years ago that potatoes stopped sprouting and tasted weird. I only eat org ones now. I read that many potato farmers (there are a lot in the next county over) grow the fields for sale, and for their family’s use, grow a small plot without the chemicals.
CA strawberries use some pretty bad stuff on strawberries; I lived in a strawberry growing area in SO Cal once and that stuff STUNK and even woke me up at night from the stink, when they applied it. No way I’ll eat those strawberries.
I’ve grown kale a lot and a certain kind of moth loves to lay its egss and then the kale is covered with tiny bugs. Diatomaceous earth gets rid of them easily, or prevents. How many commercial growers some DE? Ha, none. I wonder what they do use. There is some kind of (warning, not spelled right) Bacillus therogens-something or other that is harmless and prevents/gets rid of those bugs. I do wonder what commercial non-org growers use.
Here’s the okay ones:
Clean Fifteen (2019)
The EWG also published the “Clean Fifteen,” a list that includes 15 of fruits and vegetables “from conventional growers that generally had less residue in the group’s tests.”
Avocados
Sweet corn
Pineapples
Frozen sweet peas
Onions
Papayas
Eggplants
Asparagus
Kiwis
Cabbages
Cauliflower
Cantaloupes
Broccoli
Mushrooms
Honeydew melons