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I rinse all my veggies & fruits with an organic wash before eating. Think about how many hands probably touched them before they arrive at our home.
Ate them for years without even washing them. I do rinse them now, but not with an organic anything. If I have lived 83 years eating all the stuff touched by all those hands and I haven't died from anything nor really gotten sick, from foods, I am not going to worry about it now.
Most of your stuff grown outdoors also has botulism spores...but your immune system can handle it (except for infants under 1 year of age)*** unless you mess up the canning process and they are allowed to multiply.
***(Which is why you don't feed raw honey to an infant less than a year old. Infants cannot consume most raw foods but they *could* consume honey if it were given to them.)
The things you learn on here.
Best not tell my son...back in the day...
I gave him honey water..for some odd reason he'd get the hiccups ...and honey water did the trick.
Rinse strawberries in a dilute solution of vinegar and water, then allow to air dry before refrigerating to extend their "shelf life". It kills bacteria and makes them last longer before going soft. You have to let them dry though, before refrigerating. Fruit fly (drosophila) larva are so tiny and in lots of fruit and you eat them all the time without knowing it.
The only problem we ever had, as teens, at the U-Pick (to us back then, Pick and Eat) strawberry fields, after hours was the possibility of getting an arse full of salt load.
I love strawberries and this makes me very unhappy if it's true.
Here’s a new TikTok conspiracy for you: People are saying that if you soak strawberries in salt water, bugs will come out of them. Everyone is putting this theory to the test, and the results are super conflicting.
Sheesh, if you are afraid of eating fruit flies, don’t bicycle or run during bug season, and never eat peanut butter. Ever seen the US standards for “insect parts” concentration allowed in peanut butter?
Sheesh, if you are afraid of eating fruit flies, don’t bicycle or run during bug season, and never eat peanut butter. Ever seen the US standards for “insect parts” concentration allowed in peanut butter?
There are insect part standards for many foods. I try not to think about it.
..."Insects are already a valued source of nourishment for two billion people. In 80% of the world’s nations, people eat insects – between 1,000 and 2,000 species of them. In parts of Africa and Asia insects are a staple part of the diet."...
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