NaHCO3 aka Baking Soda Washes All Pesticides Off Your Fruits & Veggies | 100% Pesticide Removal From Surface
Simply rinsing produce with tap water will not remove any relevant amount of pesticides. SuppVersity veterans will remember the 2013 installment of " True or False " discussing whether "Washing Your Fruit and Veggies is Useless" ( re-read it ). The bottom line back then was: it's well worth spending the inconvenient extra-minute it takes to prepare warm water (28-32 °C), put your foods in, scrub a little with your hand and then continue processing them. Now, after the publication of a recent study in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry (ahead of print | Yang 2017), I will probably have to update this article. The authors, scientists from the University of Massachusetts were, after all, able to prove that baking soda, sodium bicarbonate or NaHCO3 comes close to peeling with respect to its ability to reduce the pesticide load from conventional and organic produce. Looking for more cutting-edge exercise and supplementation science? Vitargo...
