Recently it was a lot of strawberries that went on the market. The red look was very attractive. However, the strawberry surface is rough, how to clean it, it makes many people headaches.
Strawberry has a sweet and sour taste, refreshing fragrance, high nutritional value, especially suitable for spring health food, it is praised by nutritionists as "the first fruit of spring." The "Compendium of Materia Medica" describes that strawberries can moisturize the lungs, invigorate the spleen, strengthen blood, and replenish qi. It is a nourishing product for the elderly, children, and physically insane persons.
Strawberry selection:
When selecting, you should try to choose bright, shiny, strong and hard-to-touch.
Too big a strawberry to buy, too much water to buy strawberries.
Do not buy malformed strawberries that look strange.
It is best to pick a strawberry with a light surface and a fine fluff.
The strawberry is bright red, sweet and sour, it is a kind of fruit with good color, aroma and taste. Since strawberries are not like raw pears and apples can be eaten after peeling, and the appearance of strawberries is uneven, the skin is very thin, and it will be damaged if it is hardened. Therefore, many people do not know how to wash it, and some people simply do not wash it. . In fact, strawberries are herbaceous plants. The relatively low height and delicate and succulent fruit make them susceptible to pests and microbes. Therefore, pesticides are often used in the process of growing strawberries. These pesticides, fertilizers, and germs, etc., are easily attached to the rough surface of the strawberry. If the cleaning is not clean, it may cause diarrhea and even pesticide poisoning.
Strawberry cleaning method:
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.
Dipping the strawberries in Taomi Shui (preferably the first Taomi Shui) and dilute brine (adding half-tone salt in one basin of water) for 3 minutes. Their role is different. Alkaline Taomi Shui has decomposed pesticides. The role of light salt water can make insects and eggs attached to the surface of the strawberry floating, easy to be washed away by water, and have a certain degree of disinfection.
Then wash the tap water and salt water with the flowing tap water and possible remaining harmful substances. Rinse with clean water (or cold water).
Another reminder is: Do not remove the strawberry pedicle before washing strawberries, so as to avoid pesticides and contaminants in the soaking process through the "wound" into the fruit, but cause pollution.
Attached: how to wash fruit?
Some people use detergents to wash their fruits. If they are not rinsed thoroughly with tap water, they often cause detergents to remain in the stomach, which can be harmful to health.
Should choose to use salt. You can choose to use salt when washing fruits. For example, when the apple is soaked in water, put a little salt on the skin, and then hold the apple in both hands and gently squat, the dirt on the surface will soon be clean, then rinse with water, You can rest assured that you have eaten.
The principle of this cleaning is to use the small particle state of the salt, enhance the friction, and the salt is also very clean.