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NaHCO3 aka Baking Soda Washes All Pesticides Off Your Fruits & Veggies | 100% Pesticide Removal From Surface

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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...
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True or False: "Washing Your Fruit and Veggies is Useless - You Can't Wash Away the Pesticides, Anyway!"

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It's a good idea to wash your veggies, but this is not the most effective method. Bath them in warm water, don't wash them under the faucet. Despite the fact that I had my reasons to end the SuppVersity "True or False" Series back in the day. The popularity of the corresponding articles that appear from time to time as SuppVersity Classics on Facebook does yet tell me that you won't be mad at me, if I revive it and try to tackle a statement I've overheard in one of those infamous gym conversations between two ladies on the cross-trainer: "I always wash those pepper extra thoroughly, you know... tomatoes are among the veggies with the highest amounts of pesticides on them." Answer lady two: "Ha, you don't really believe the pesticides are on the outside of the tomatoes only, do you? They are in the tomato. Washing them will at best remove some of the dirt on their skin!" True or False: "It's useless to wash your peppe...
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