Wednesday, November 18, 2009

fruit & veggie wash

I recently was skimming over a nutritional book and came across the Dr. Parcells' Food bath theory for cleaning fruits, veggies and even meats and eggs. It's basically a water/Clorox mixture which you soak your food in. The formula is 1 teaspoon of Clorox to 1 gallon of purified, ozonated water. The Clorox soak time is different for different foods (leafy veggies for 15min, poultry, fish, meat & eggs for 20min). After that you soak it in clear water for ten minutes then rinse and dry before storage. This totally weirded me out when I first read it but it supposedly removes pesticides, parasites, bacteria and other contaminants. I'm not sold out on the idea yet and was wondering if anyone else has used this method to clean their food??? You can read a little about it here.

4 comments:

Lizzy said...

oh my!! that sounds time-consuming! i simply run some water into a large stainless-steel or glass baking bowl along with a few squirts of Veggie Wash. Throw produce in, quickly rinse, place produce on a clean towel on counter to dry for 20 min. to an hour and presto! clean produce!! ...in a fraction of the time. BTW, the actual name of the brand is Veggie Wash (original, huh?! lol). It's about $4-$7 a bottle but it lasts forever!! 4-6 months!!

Lizzy said...

it's for fruit too!!!! and one more thing - no harmful, noxious Clorox - has natural stuff like like grapefruit seed extract and vinegar. smells great!

Michelle said...

Hmm... that does sound strange. I wouldn't feel comfortable that all the bleach rinsed off my food. Seems like you're trading one chemical for another??

Katy VanRyckeghem said...

Clorox breaks down into salt & water though ...
http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/germ-fighting-guide-9/bleach-myths-facts