Before you consumed fruits and vegetables or processed, it should be generally washed. This also applies if it is peeled before eating, advises the Verbraucherzentrale Bayern.
Because of adhering dirt, dust or germs can get in Touch else about the knife from the surface into the Interior of the fruit.
Clean running cold or lukewarm water is suitable depending on the sensitivity of the fruit. Special cleaning or detergent is neither necessary nor useful to be.
Large and firm fruit, such as Apples, peppers, or cucumbers, they could RUB off after Washing with a clean cloth. This improves the cleaning result.
Stubborn dirt with a vegetable brush to remove.
lettuce or strawberries tolerated, however, no hard jet of water. They should be washed in cold, stagnant water, only briefly remain on the field and then drain in a colander.
Heavily-polluted vegetable wash is better several times than to edit it once with a lot of water.
Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa)
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