Ways To Avoid Pesticides In Food

Ways To Avoid Pesticide Residues In Food

Buy Organic

Organic vegetables are not allowed to be sprayed with chemical pesticides, so they are less likely to have any on them.  You will bypass these potential chemical pesticide health risks when you buy correctly grown organic produce.  

 Wash Your Produce even if it is organic

It won’t get rid of all of it as some is absorbed by the plants, but it will help. Use warm water and wash it the same way you would wash your hands with light scrubbing.  Or if you have time wash it in a small bowl with  warm water with a small amout of salt added.

Peel Non-Organic Produce

Due to spraying, pesticide residues are likely to end up closest to the surface of the produce, so by peeling it you can remove the area most likely to be affected.
  

Grow your own :)

Grow your own if you can... When you grow your own, you have control over what goes in the soil and what gets sprayed on your plants. So you can be sure to have pesticide-free vegetables/fruit.

Don’t Eat These Parts

Some fruits, such as apples and Peaches, have a small indented area at the top which can fill with pesticides when the fruit is sprayed. leading to a higher concentration of pesticides in that area. Don’t eat this part. Cut out very top part of non-organic fruits that have an indent and throw it away.

Buy veg/fruit direct from a farm shop when it is in season

Not all farm shops sell fresh always ask first.  Buying food that is in season means it is less likely to have gone through the storage processes of foods that are not in season.  One other thing to remember is that most fruit/Veg sold in supermarkets are not fresh.  They are picked before they are ripe and put into cold storage for weeks even moths before they apear on the shelves.  So most have hardly any nutritional value even though they look appertising.  That is why many people decided to suppliment Take a look here at our daily nutrition/vits/mins :)