Re: [CH] Washing your produce
Constance Allen (constance_allen@charter.net)
Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:05:23 -0700
I was told by a produce vendor that dunking your produce into a bowl
of water and leaving it for approximately ten minutes would rinse off
any germs.
Constance Allen
On Aug 21, 2008, at 5:50 AM, George wrote:
>>> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:10:23 -0500
> From: "jim" <jim@mail.wildpepper.com>
> Subject: Re: [CH] Yahoo Article on Mexican Jalapenos
>
> Re: Something that I don't understand... is it simply because people
> aren't washing them before they eat them?
>
> Washing any and ALL fresh produce goes a long way to reducing your
> risks. Even the stuff that comes in the bags and is 'thoroughly
> washed'
> gets a quick rinse from me, which takes the chances down to near zero.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> I am a fervent believer in washing that bagged salad stuff. Most of
> the baggers (if not all) use a common preservative on it (or
> impregnated into the bag itself) to keep it from wilting or
> browning. This is fine and well, but there is something in that
> preservative that causes my lips to be irritated, almost blister-
> ish. So, I wash the hell out of it, and dry it with my handy salad
> spinner. No problems since with the bagged greenery.
>
> Now, regarding washing your local (or megastore-bought) produce:
> YES! At the very least, you don't know how many hands have touched
> it, including youngins aka "booger-eaters", and where those hands
> were prior to yours. I still remember the first potato that I
> washed, sold under the guise of "washed and ready to eat". My little
> scrub brush revealed all sorts of Idaho's Finest left on the skin.
> Since I enjoy eating the skin along with the potato (and not so much
> the lovely volcanic soil it was raised in), that also has become a
> regular practice.
>
> I know there are those that say a little dirt in your diet is good
> for you, but I'll leave that to the worms to process and integrate
> into my produce via the root system. Of course, at OF, I'll still
> eat Jim's peppers straight off the plant and run around afterwards
> screaming like that kid in Home Alone. I'm really curious how the
> mutant jumbo jalapenos will be this year since the weather has been
> so mellow. [Homer Simpson sounds] MMMM, Open Fields.[/Homer Simpson
> sounds]
>
> George in Indy