How to clean spring vegetables by nitrates and pesticides

Named ways of reducing the amount of harmful substances in vegetables.

To resist early vegetables is almost impossible — radishes, cucumbers, tomatoes and asks in his mouth. Now, however, these, in fact, a vitamin products represent a health hazard, because the eyeballs stuffed with nitrates. Are there ways to reduce the amount of harmful substances in vegetables? Of course!

And today we’ll show you how to do it.

Choose small fruits. In vegetables the large size of the nitrate, usually more.

Before use, thoroughly wash the vegetables and cut parts, which have accumulated chemicals (petioles, peduncles, tips of upper leaves). Don’t forget to remove green space – they have a lot of toxic solanine.

To nitrate was even less for 15-20 minute soak vegetables in cold water. Cabbage and root crops before this procedure needs to be cut into pieces.

Boil vegetables in water, immediately drain the liquid and then salt the dish. So you will reduce the level of chemicals by 80%. To get rid of nitrates helps any heat treatment.

If you are preparing a salad of fresh tomatoes and cucumbers, uspesni their pomegranate, lemon juice or citric acid solution. To fully protect your body, before eating salad accept askorbinku.

In any case, do not keep fresh vegetables and salads of them in the fridge longer than 24 hours. During this time the nitrates can turn into dangerous carcinogens nitrite.

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