Nitrate and pesticides may be partially to get rid of: for this vegetables and fruits you need to properly wash and clean.
CABBAGE. A large part of the nitrates contained in the top cabbage leaves and cobs, so they need to be thrown away.
POTATOES. In potatoes, the nitrates are going under the skin and in the core of the tuber, so after the potatoes are boiled, the water must be drained.
ZUCCHINI, CUCUMBERS, EGGPLANT. Cucumbers color needs to be gently herbal in color if they are dark green it says that they are overfed with nitrates. The first zucchini and eggplant need to peel. Cut off the stalk region is the most poisonous place.
GREENS, LETTUCE, PARSLEY, DILL. Most of the chemical accumulates in the veins, and stalks - no need to eat it. The greens always faster, and absorb nitrates before adding it to your dishes, soak for an hour in the water.
TOMATOES. The thicker the skin of a tomato, the more it contains no chemicals. Do not buy tomatoes orange - red as if immature. White flesh and thick veins on the cut is a signal to the high content of chemicals. But if you mean they are of poor quality tomatoes, soak them in cool water for about 1 hour.
GRAPES. To grapes stored for a long time it is treated with fungicides. To get rid of this substance, the grapes are good enough to wash.
WATERMELONS. Do not buy a watermelon, cut in half and wrapped in foil is a good basis for bacteria and germs. If the watermelon has a thick yellowish veins, so it fertilized. You can do a little test: put the pulp for one minute in a glass of water, if the water has changed color, it means the watermelon fed if she just dimmed berry pure.
PEARS AND APPLES. By purchasing fruits take them in your hands, if you feel that the fruits are slippery and sticky, so they are treated with diphenyl in order that they is not spoiled for a long time stored. In the EU, USA, diphenyl banned because of its strong carcinogenic and allergenic properties. Biphenyl-treated fruits have peel.
BEETS, CARROTS, RADISHES. A huge amount of nitrates contained in the tops and the tips of the roots, trim them before use. Do not buy beets with the twisted tails. From carrots cut 1 cm of tail, the green part should be cut completely, it contains a large number of chemicals.
To minimize the amount of the used chemistry, you need to choose fruits and vegetables grown in the CIS. They are many times “cleaner” imported. We are not in similar amounts used of mineral fertilizers, for the simple reason that our manufacturers have no money to buy fertilizer in such quantities as, for example, purchase of fertilizers in America, Holland, the Netherlands, and Turkey. And maximum allowable limits of concentration of nitrates in America and we have significantly different, for example, beets 3600 mg/kg, and we have beet penalize already at 1400мг/kg.
The most contaminated fruits and vegetables come to us from Holland, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, they have poor land and she just can’t give a rich harvest without significant amounts of fertilizer. But in safe amounts contain chemicals in vegetables and fruits grown in the countries of the former Soviet Union and Bulgaria.
