Now on the market there are fresh cucumbers, zucchini, tomatoes, white and cauliflower cabbage, many bunches of fresh herbs. Eyes just run up, there is an irresistible desire to buy everything and cook right there. But how do you choose the right fresh, seasonal vegetables to benefit your body?
It is advisable to give preference to local vegetables and fruits, because imported fruits are always harvested from bushes and trees that are not yet ripe. This is done in order to facilitate the transportation of products, and then "ripen" them later, and artificially. And how many nutrients are in them? Very little, so it is better to choose later vegetables and not rush for early vitamins.
When choosing fresh fruits of vegetable crops, first of all, you need to pay attention to their appearance. You should be alerted by too large fruits, with an uneven color or a very light shade, devoid of smell. For example, good tomatoes have a uniform color when cut. If the skin is darker, and light shades of pulp are visible inside, then they were grown using nitrates. You shouldn't choose these.
After buying any vegetables or fruits, they need to be rinsed in a special solution to remove pesticide deposits from the surface. To do this, take a container of water, pour the juice from half a lemon and a small pinch of sea salt into it. Such water is able to wash away all accumulated "chemistry" from the peel of vegetables and fruits.
How to reduce the amount of dangerous fertilizers in fruits and protect your body? Chemicals are mostly found in those parts of the fruit that provide sap flow. For example, in radishes it is a tail, in carrots and white cabbage it is a stem, and in cucumbers and zucchini it is a peel. That is, before eating vegetables, it is necessary to remove their main parts, then chemicals will not enter the body.
How to choose fresh herbs? If the greens are frail, then this is a sure sign that they were grown at a fast pace with the use of nitrates. When choosing bunches of lettuce, onions, parsley or dill, you need to turn it vertically and see the elasticity of the product. If the greens keep their shape well, then it is of high quality, and if it bent down, this is a sign that it was treated with chemicals.
Of course, after winter storage, I really want fresh vegetables, and the body urgently requires vitamins. But you can't lose your head. Remember the main principle: do not rush to acquire early vegetables and herbs, wait for ground fruits from local gardens and then you will definitely be confident in their quality and usefulness.
