How to wash the most clean strawberries? Correct cleaning of strawberries
The strawberry is bright red, sweet and sour, it is a kind of fruit with good color, aroma and taste. It contains protein, sucrose, fructose, citric acid, malic acid, carotene, calcium, phosphorus, potassium and other nutrients, especially vitamin C content is about 10 times that of grapes, apples, and no cholesterol, so it is popular with the people . If you eat some strawberries after a meal, you can promote gastrointestinal motility, help digestion, and prevent constipation. Chinese medicine believes that strawberries are sweet and sour, cool, and can have lungs, fluids, spleen and stomach, heat and cooling blood, and have special health care effects on arteriosclerosis, hypertension, coronary heart disease, scurvy and other patients. According to research, women often eat strawberries and have a cosmetic effect on their hair and skin. Strawberry contains a substance called aspartic acid, according to some studies that can lose weight.
Cleaning strawberries should include the following steps:
1. First rinse with running tap water for a few minutes to remove most germs, pesticides, and other contaminants from the surface of the strawberry. Note: Do not soak in water first, so as to avoid pesticides dissolved in the water and then absorbed by the strawberry, and penetrate into the fruit;
2. Soak the strawberries in Taomi Shui (preferably the first Taomi Shui) and dilute brine (add half-tone salt in a basin of water) for 3 minutes. Their role is different, alkaline rice water has Decomposition of the role of pesticides; light salt water can make the insects and eggs attached to the strawberry surface floating, easy to be washed out by water, and have a certain degree of disinfection. It can also be disinfected with a 1:5000-10000 potassium permanganate solution (light red), but it will convert to manganese dioxide remaining on the strawberries. Although manganese is a component of many enzymes in the body and is a trace element that the body needs, the amount of manganese in the food we consume every day already meets the needs of the human body and does not need to be supplemented. In some areas, tap water is supplied by the old water pipes of several decades ago, resulting in high manganese in drinking water, and intake of too much manganese is not good for health, so it is better not to use it.
3. Then use clean tap water to wash out the water and salt water as well as possible harmful substances.
4. Rinse with clean water (or cold water).
Also to be reminded is: Do not remove the strawberry pedicle before washing strawberries, so as to avoid pesticides and pollutants in the soaking process through the "wound" into the fruit, but cause pollution; it is best not to include "vegetable cleanser" in Any detergent inside to wash the strawberries. Although all kinds of approved "food detergents" are tested for safety, they can be used to clean dishes and vegetables. The premise is that they should be washed clean after all. Because the detergents are all chemical products, after all, they are not food products. It may remain on the surface of the strawberry and it is difficult to be washed. It is better to eat less chemical active substances.
The above method for cleaning strawberries is also suitable for the cleaning of bayberry and other fruits.
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