Top 5 pesticide-laden vegetables you should know about

Here are the top 5 vegetables most heavily sprayed with pesticides. When shopping, be extra careful to avoid impacting your family's health.

According to food safety experts, there are over a thousand cases of food poisoning in our country every year. And there are hundreds of reasons leading to food poisoning. Vegetables with chemical residues exceeding limits will directly affect the health of consumers. If consumed in small amounts, it will cause food poisoning; if consumed heavily, it will affect the respiratory process and lead to mutations and the onset of cancer. Therefore, identifying safe vegetables by observation is crucial. Usually, on vegetables contaminated with chemical fertilizers or insecticides, you will see small dust particles or smell unusual odors. Here, I will share with you the 5 vegetables most heavily sprayed with chemicals nowadays.

1st: Bitter Melon

Selection Tips:

When you go shopping, it's best to look for small, elongated bitter melons with fine, thin veins on the surface. These will have fewer pesticides and preservatives. On the other hand, large bitter melons with dark green color, smooth skin, and swollen stems have likely been heavily treated with chemicals to maintain freshness.

2nd: Leafy Greens

Selection Tips:

These are the vegetables that attract pests the most when grown in soil. Therefore, gardeners often increase pesticide spraying and fertilization before harvesting. So it can be very dangerous when you use them because the amount of chemical fertilizers and pesticides is still very high as they have not had enough time to decompose.

- When you hold a bundle of fresh, vibrant green leafy greens in your hand without seeing any signs of pests and the stems are firm and plump, it's likely that the greens have been heavily fertilized with nitrate, which is very harmful to our health, so you shouldn't eat them raw.

3rd: Mustard Greens

Selection Tips:

If mustard greens are sprayed too much with pesticides and fertilizers, they will grow unusually large and unnaturally white. If left without watering for a day, the greens will wilt and darken immediately.

4th: Cowpeas

Selection Tips:

Pay attention to cowpeas with few hairs, long pods, and clearly visible segments, which are the result of excessive use of foliar fertilizers. If you find all these peas being sold without any signs of damage, it indicates they have been sprayed with pesticides and insecticides before being brought to market.

5th: Bean Sprouts

Selection Tips:

You may see bean sprouts that are round, white, and have few roots, which may be appealing to housewives. But in reality, these bean sprouts are produced using extremely dangerous technology.

When you see these beans sprouting, it means the producers have used concentrated foliar fertilizers and diluted pesticides to water the sprouts, then sealed them tightly to incubate. These chemicals help the bean sprouts sprout and grow quickly. When you stir-fry them, the bean sprouts will release cloudy liquids.

Attention: When preparing vegetables like broccoli, cabbage, etc., ensure you remove the roots and separate each leaf. Also, discard any damaged leaves and soak the vegetables in water or a cleansing solution for about 15 minutes. Then, rinse each leaf thoroughly under running water before further processing.

This method, although simple, effectively eliminates a significant portion of pesticides and fertilizers from the vegetables, especially from the leaf crevices. Moreover, it helps remove any eggs, worms, or contaminants adhering to the vegetables. Wishing you all safe consumption of clean food. By: Passion for Food

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