How to Make Your Own Fruit and Vegetable Wash
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- Опубліковано 28 кві 2015
- 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 a bit of an intermission in my 5-part series on organic foods. So far I’ve covered the questions Are Organic Foods More Nutritious? (nutrititionfacts.org/video/Are...) and Are Organic Foods Safer? (nutritionfacts.org/video/are-o...)
Next, I’m going to wrap it up with what I think the available science suggests is the bottom-line when it comes to choosing which type of produce to buy in the final two in the series:
• Are Organic Foods Healthier? (nutritionfacts.org/video/are-o...)
• Are the Benefits of Organic Food Underrated or Overrated? (nutritionfacts.org/video/are-t...)
The most important reason to wash produce is to reduce the risk of food-borne illness. Ironically, the food poisoning viruses may be found in the pesticides themselves. Check out my video Norovirus Food Poisoning from Pesticides (nutritionfacts.org/video/norov....
Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at nutritionfacts.org/video/how-t... and he'll try to answer it!
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I used to call my mother crazy for soaking all her veg in salt water in the sink for hours before cooking. Looks like I owe someone an apology. It looks like mother did know best on this occasion.
Pesticides in plant food can easily be removed with salt water. Pesticides in animal food is impossible to remove because of build up of pesticides in the fat.
+MV Waht about using sodium bicarbonate, should it be used to wash fruit or vegetables to remove bacteria or one should use water+salt or both ??
mayorc 9 parts water and 1 part salt is best in terms of ability to remove pesticides as well as cheapness. Check out the video.
Calvin Hague Read the comment again, I'm talking about bacteria, that's why I'm asking about sodium bicarbonate.
Both contain Sodium and are effective to remove pesticides, but who is better for killing bacteria ?
+mayorc bacteria will likely die if cooked, so if you have a compromised immune system or an auto immune disease you should probably be cooking everything. otherwise that's what your immune system is for
omg I just had a flashback to my childhood, my grandma always soaked fruits in salt water. she could never give me a reason why, but that's just the way they did it. I guess they knew something back then
So salt and water (1:9 ratio) for washing fruit and vegetables 👌🏼
Man I love your videos, they are full of factual info and no beating around the BS bush. Salt water, got it.
I live in the US now so I really wash my produce very well with dish soap and rinse thoroughly; but in Africa, we use saltwater to wash our leafy greens/cabbages, to get the bugs out and plain water to get dirt from harvesting and handling, off our fruits and vegies...We do not have the pesticide issue since our farmers adhere mostly to organic farming or less commercialized systems of crop cultivation.
well it looks like you should go back to using salt water based on the research shown in the video
iiavalanchei I agree...thank you.:)
He gets to the point about 4:45
My mother always let her leafy greens soak in a sink full of slightly tepid water with a good sprinkling of salt to kill any small insects. I don’t recall any concerns about pesticides by this was a lllooonngg time back. Great to know 😍
Thanks a lot for this video. I was thinking of asking you for this video now I get it. Live long and thanks again for your great work!
Excellent video - thank you for sharing!
Very, useful, practical info!
Useful knowledge.
WOW! Thank you!
thank you so much for making this video!!! I have always used tones of that special soap for all the food stuff that wasn't Organic because I was so freaked out and worried about the pesticides on it.....wow... I will just use salt water now...lol
Very good one
Well that is great. Salt is cheaper than vinegar.
thank you :)
Thank you Dr. Greger.
I usually try to wash apples, potatoes thoroughly by rubbing them. But I think it’s impossible to rub things like grapes which is tedious and can squash the grapes.
Thanks, I was planning to make my own fruit and vegetable wash with a mixture of hydrogen peroxide, water, and sea salt, with a touch of rubbing alcohol. Right now I just dip most of my produce in an aqueous solution of hydrogen peroxide. Seems to keep them from getting moldy much if at all.
Make sure to apply friction from a rag while rinsing to take off the most pesticides after soaking in vinegar or salt water.
doc G I wonder if my technique would be any of use.. I take all my new fruit and veg I buy and e500 there dirty assess then rinse dry and store..
Eat plant based and organic with a water wash seems the easiest and simplest way to go.
Do you have any videos on getting rid of Candida?
According to a study conducted by an agricultural university in my state, washing vegetables and fruits in tamarind solution is found to be very effective in removing pesticide residues. To make the solution mix 20 gms of tamarind on 1 litre water. Hope this helps
Muhammad Ali what will happen if you combine tamarind and salt?
Beyond Unknown That would be a deadly combination - deadly for the pesticide residues
Was just wondering. How long should the fruits/vegetables be soaked in the salt solution for?
+diorenehaha To get the results in the study they washed them for 20 minutes(says so in the abstract). Which is very long. I wonder if it's just leaving the vegetable in the solution for that long or if they actively rubbed it with their hands.
+zyax123 the words he used were that the potatoes were soaked
Hello, could you please make a video about the cause of a low body temperature? I am eating a plant based diet now for more than two years and I have recently noticed that my body temperature is constantly below 35 celsius. As far as I know it should be around 36.5-37. Can you give your thoughts on this? Many thanks
A low basal body temperature is an indicator of hypothyroidism. Please have your doctor run a FULL THYROID PANEL, NOT just a TSH level. The panel shoud include a T4 and T3 (Free and total), Reverse T3, Thyroid Peroxidase Antibodies (TPOAb) and Thyroglobulin Antibodies (TgAb). The bolded tests are to diagnose Hashimoto's, an autoimmune thyroid disease that is more complicated and can do the body much harm. Also, if you have an underactive thyroid, insist on the natural, dessicated thyroid (Armour Thyroid), not Synthroid or cytomel. These are just synthetics and do not convert to the T3 in the body, leaving you sick, but may alter the blood test results to show an improvement. To see more, go to stop the thyroid madness dot com. Most people in US are hypothyroid, which can manifest as digestion, cardiac, skin and hair, weight gain/loss, fatigue, muscle weakness, depression and all kinds of other ills. The standard test, the TSH level does not register with most sufferers due to the wide range of "normal".
One would assume that chemicals soak right through the produce. I am no chemist but I also assume salt water mix remove pesticides only from surface layers I wonder how theses tests for pesticides where done.
"9 parts water and 1 part salt"
Is that by weight or by volume?
Probably volume, because teaspoons and whatnot are easy to use and most people have them.
Vinegar is absurd cheap (in Portugal at least)
Megan k some say vinegar.wine or salt.All work well.
on lemons(for zesting) or say apples with skin, etc.these solutions don't do so well to break the fungicide/WAX coating..iI think 'organic'' liquid soap, d-limonene and perhaps baking soda or vinegar would ''solve'' all
Isn't it better to use clean water like filter water to wash the fruits and veggies?
is there a good video about tap water? if one knows can he answer me? (:
We use baking soda and water for washes
What happens if I drink salt water? or acetic acid diluted with water?
What about water with baking soda??
This video just further convinced me to continue eating plant based and avoid any meat products. 😁
I also read somewhere that the pesticides that remain on produce, without washing, isn't supposed to be that harmful. Basically, don't let pesticides prevent you from eating produce. I'll just use the salt water solution for the dirty dozen, because cooking is time consuming enough without having to double wash everything.
I usually use a vegetable peeler. Is that wrong?
Not ALWAYS, if the the peel looks really bad, but sometimes you will lose the most important part of the fruit, most notably red apple:
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How do you get the wax off of fruits and Vegas safely?
Gertrude Sever I use dish soap on my apples and cucumbers. then I rinse really well.
Gertrude Sever The conclusion of this video is "10% Saline" that means a solution of 1% of salt in 9% of water and it works better than 5% vinegar.
Beyond Unknown I tried that. Even then I could scrape out some wax from the skin of the apples. Now I always have to peel apples and cucumbers even when I know it's stripping off of it's nutrients.
I would never buy a fruit that has wax on it in the first place...
goku where you buy fruit with no wax
All of them has wax
I just take skins of my tomato always
What about systemic pesticides?
@ Jeanne Amati • You can’t remove systemic pesticides, they’re taken up from the soil through the roots, best bet is to go organic.
We have a water softener. Will softened tap water be effective enough as a sodium-based cleaner for vegetables? Will reusing the softened wash-water be harmful for watering flowerbed plants and the vegetable garden?
Do NOT water flowers or other plants with softened tap water that comes from your salt-based water softener. It will make the soil wayyyyyyyy too high in sodium over time and it will harm the plants. Plus, the chlorine or chloramine in tap water isn't that great for many more sensitive plants. You're far better off using a garden hose connected to the water line feeding your house up stream of the softener. You also shouldn't be cooking with or drinking that softened water yourself since your sodium intake will be much higher than it normally should be for health reasons. Washing dishes, washing laundry, washing your car, showering, etc is all great and dandy but don't consume or water other living things with softened water unless you're using a "salt free" water softener.
Please tell us about Histamine intolerance. This things drive me crazy!
when making this salt water solution, can it be cheap salt (like Morton's) or should it be good salt like crystal salt, sea salt or Himalayan?
It should not matter at all, even the cheap salt consist of NaCl which is what was tested on that. And all you need to do is leave it soaking for 20 minutes at least, might try longer, but should be good enough.
What about lemon and water ?
@ Joel yazelle • lemon would be citric acid (I think), salt is sodium chloride. Not the same.
Hi Dr. Greger. I'm a dietetics and nutrition student, interested in knowing your opinion on the new findings on eggs safety and cholesterol. I've been wanting to know what the whole controversy of eggs is all about! Please consider doing a video on that topic, I as well as many people I'm sure would be very interested in knowing your intake this information. Go breakfast!
Me too.
+Katy Diaz He has done many videos about eggs. Search the channel.
Katy Diaz he has a lot of egg videos. He's definitely not an advocate for eggs and even the usda considers them unhealthy
Katy Diaz considering eggs are scrambled fetuses I've never been able to really bring myself to eat them...even as a small child when I learned what they were. Search google or UA-cam. Lots of info as to how unhealthy they are. My parents used to say how good they were for me and now they don't eat them to often
I use apple cider vinegar
I use H2O2 (hydrogen peroxide), alternatively baking soda. You may combine.
ahhh damn i thought i read somewhere that it was vinegar seems like its salt instead
But yay! Salt is way cheaper! ;-)
Vinegar does work, but it has to be full strength, so that's a lot of vinegar to use when you're soaking items. 10% salt water is a lot cheaper. I like the germ-killing effect of vinegar though. I wonder if adding a splash of vinegar to the salt solution would affect it's power, and would that be a strong enough concentration of vinegar to do anything much.
@@therebalancer7445 Couldn’t hurt.
Good business idea! bottled salt water for fruit wash, call it pestiOFF.
Wow, thank you. I just kept buying soap to wash my veggies and fruit. Now I know!
whhaat, what if you want to rinse of any extra blood.
A Tulsa, Ok news (6) show (April 2019) reported that kale cannot be cleaned of residue.
Baking soda
Ozone?
heyitsablackguy Might work. Or better yet: MMS.
But I'm not just washing for pesticide removal. I am also washing off bacteria like e-coli. Then you're going to want something that breaks the hydrophobic membrane of the bacteria like a soap. It doesn't take much. =]
I wonder if it is good to leave some bacteria, after all it's because we're so sanitary that we need b12 supplements. As for e-coli that would only be an issue if there was cross contamination, right? And it's only certain types of e-coli that are likely to make us sick. But, I think our bodies can handle a small amount. So, rinsing and rubbing is probably sufficient (I guess, lol). I also wonder if we're plant based with a strong microbiome, wouldn't our gut flora crowd out bad bacteria?
I thought DDT was banned a long time ago?
'Along with the passage of the Endangered Species Act, the US ban on DDT is cited by scientists as a major factor in the comeback of the bald eagle.'
One should feel relatively safe!
HE BIG QUESTION IS . SINCE MOSANTOS HAS GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD TO THE POINT THAT THE FOOD PRODUCES ITS OWN PESTICIDE , IS THERE REALLY SUCH A THING AS ORGANIC ?
Yes, but you have to make sure the food is certified 100% organic AND non GMO. They are two different things, unfortunately. Look for the non GMO Project certification for the best bet.
If salt works, natron / baking soda should even be more effective!
Bicarbonate of soda is indeed more effective
Salt is sodium chloride, baking soda is sodium bicarbonate; did they test baking soda?
You get yourself an ozone machine that one can buy online. If you need source supplier let me know.
So just use water, ok got it 👍
Who sponsors this UA-cam channel?
I could be wrong, but I don't think they have sponsors. They are non-profit, funded by donations.
Nobody
Salt industry
This is sponsored by the dairy, bacon, salt, vaccine, rice and egg industry. This is what we call in counter intelligence, controlled opposition :).
Don't worry its a long con, it has to obviously be the truth. Just wait, until he starts being their shill. Some day...
@@scholasticphilosopher760 😂😂🤣🤣
I disagree with the claim that it is not possible to be 10 times as effective as water. Say water removes those 80% of pesticides mentioned in the video. So it leaves 20%. If a wash were to remove 98% of pesticides it would leave only 2%. So the consumer would only be exposed to a tenth of the amount of pesticides (2% instead of 20%). So if this were to made clear I would be on board with calling a wash that removes 98% of pesticides "10 times as effective as water".
That is simply not how arithmetic works, if something is twice as effective that means that it is 200% better. That is simply how we use the meaning of the word, when it used. x10 is a multiplier effect. To be it in germ killing, or in this case pesticide residue.
Suppose that we were to use units that were more easy to understand, say there are 1000 units of pesticides residue in total of all the stuff you want to eliminate from your fruits and veggies. So if you remove 800 units, and have 200 left. You say that if you had only 20 units of residue (or as you put it 2% of our 1000 units) left that would mean 10 times more effective than water. But that is incorrect! In order for it to be ten times more effective it has to be ten times more effective of the original unit of removal, which is why Dr. Greger was correct in pointing out that is mathematically impossible. You would have to remove 8000 units of pesticides in order to be 10 times more effective. The proper term would be 1.18 times more effective (ratios my friend remember that in 2nd grade?) than water, otherwise what is the point of using words if they have no meaning? In attempting to correct Dr. Greger, you end up looking stupid mate. Do not take it the wrong way, its just before trying to correct someone who is 3 standard deviations to the right more intelligent than you are, the first thing to ask yourself if whether your thinking about it is wrong, and why.
Thomas Schian
This is incorrect data analysis. Back to the Board or school!
THE REAL QUESTION IS . SINCE MOSANTOS HAS GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD TO THE POINT THAT THE FOOD PRODUCES ITS OWN PESTICIDE , IS THERE REALLY SUCH A THING AS ORGANIC ?
Dougs2fresh organic and non GMO are two different things In Canada ( not sure bout USA) genetically modified foods codes begin with a 4
WHY is washing poultry/meat considered a MISTAKE?
ten times better than leaving 50% of pesticides unwashed would be leaving 5% pesticides unwashed
9 to 1? Holy Shit that's a lot of salt.
1 part salt to 9 parts water = 10% solution
I think it's a lot of salt too. I mean, I eat a lot of veggie and fruit. I'd be using salt all day. I think rinsing and rubbing is probably fine. I bet that's all Dr. Greger does :)
So only organic food eater will live longer...
NOT all people can afford Non GMO or /& Organic food as it is more xpensive than conventional ones., so does it mean that vegan Non GMO & non organic food consummer will die sooner with cancer , MS, etc ? ? I hate organic food propaganda, it is UNFAIR for those who can not afford it .
SO what the benefit for being vegan then ??? ....
What left to eat for the marginal vegan consummer who can't afford organic's or non-GMO's ???.
As the video said, simply soak your fruits and vegetables (organic or not) in salt water and there will be negligible or not pesticides on it.
The benefit of going vegan is you avoid meat. Meat has high amounts of pesticides in it because animals eat plants that have not had pesticides removed. The pesticides in animal feed build up in animal fat. When you eat meat, you are getting a concentrated dose of pesticides.
If you want to avoid pesticides, your best bet is to go vegan, buy organic all the time, and then soak the organic plant food in salt water.
See this is the problem I can't stand to see and hear. If YOU can't buy organic then just be okay with it and do the best you can! OF COURSE non pesticide foods are healthier for you. But we all know it's more costly, so just do the best you can and keep a healthy coat over yourself as much as you can do comfortably. For goodness sake, Doc just let us know that salt water removes a lot of pesticides...I would think that's something to be happy about instead of focusing on the negative and complaining.
That's untrue. Organic is generally better for the environment and farm workers but there's little evidence it's better for the consumer.
The video showed how you can eliminate the pesticides by soaking in salt water. You can go further by sprinkling baking soda and vinegar on first and then soaking in salt water and washing off.
Just call your video facts about store bought vegetable wash because that is actually what your video is about 😑
bla bla bla bla bla bla ... just jump to 4:45
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bla bla bla i hate research i hate evidence bla bla bla i just want to be told what to believe in bla bla bla. Just start at 0:00
朱真明 for some things i don't need to know the research especially for something like this. But go ahead and make yourself feel like you're better than others over pointless reasons.
ramossaenz thank you!
That's why people in general are so stupid they just want to be told they don't want the facts they don't want the research
cool ruler factors the people don't want to know the facts about anything they just here and do like stupid people
so much bias and fast judgement against meat... I watch this channel for the best of the plant world but not giving up meat and dairy in moderation.