Flashback Friday: How to Make Your Own Fruit and Vegetable Wash
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2019-07-12

Commercial fruit and vegetable washes fail to work better than tap water, but there is a cheap do-it-yourself solution that may completely eliminate certain pesticide residues.

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This is part of my five-part series on organic foods: 
• Are Organic Foods More Nutritious? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/are-organic-foods-more-nutritious)
• Are Organic Foods Safer? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/are-organic-foods-safer)
• Are Organic Foods Healthier? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/are-organic-foods-healthier)
• Are the Benefits of Organic Food Underrated or Overrated? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/are-the-benefits-of-organic-food-underrated-or-overrated)

The most important reason to wash produce is to reduce the risk of foodborne illness. Ironically, the food poisoning viruses may be found in the pesticides themselves. Check out my video Norovirus Food Poisoning from Pesticides (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/norovirus-food-poisoning-from-pesticides).

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