We always used to do this as well…
If you want to eat an apple, you rinse it with tap water or rub it with your sleeve. Pretty much every one of us does this. However, it turns out that this isn’t nearly enough if you want to make sure you don’t ingest any pesticides. There’s only one way to really clean an apple and it isn’t either of the two options we mentioned above.
Luckily, it’s a pretty easy thing to do.
Pesticides
The American Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry published a new study. It shows that apples are the most sprayed type of fruit and that these pesticides can be found on the skin or peel. The pesticide can only be used in very small quantities, but it does definitely stick on the peel and we don’t know what this means for our health in the long term. Luckily, there’s a way to entirely remove these pesticides from your apple because just rinsing it isn’t enough. This method of making your apple pesticide-free is very easy and you don’t have to remove any of the peel.
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Soak
We all want to properly clean our fruit so we make sure we ingest as little pesticides as possible. The best thing you can do is to soak the fruit. If you put the apple in a bowl of water with a little bit of baking soda and let it soak there for about 15 minutes, all of the pesticides will disappear. This trick also works for other types of fruit, like pears. If you want to make things easier for yourself, you could also simply peel the apple. Unfortunately, this does mean you lose a lot of the nutrients in the apple because a lot of them are located right beneath the peel.
Apple juice
We’d also like to let you in on another apple secret. Do you drink a lot of apple juice because you think it’s good for your health due to the amount of vitamins? Wrong! Because it takes a lot of apples to produce one glass of juice, you’re unwittingly ingesting a ton of sugar. This can lead to a peak in sugar levels and this can be dangerous for people with diabetes. It also leads to obesity, despite the fact that you think you’re being very healthy. It’s much better to just stick to eating apples instead of drinking them. That’s a lot healthier for you.
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