How to identify 5 types of vegetables that are often sprayed with chemicals

The young cabbage bunches are lush, with bright green leaves, no trace of insects, and the stems are firm and unusually even, which is believed to be due to heavy fertilization with nitrate nitrogen.

​Recognizing safe vegetables by senses is very important. Normally, on vegetables contaminated with pesticides, chemical fertilizers, stimulants, etc., you can see small dust particles and smell unusual flavors. When eating, if you pay attention, you will notice that the vegetables have a strange flavor.

Cabbage

This type of vegetable attracts many insects when grown in the ground. Therefore, garden owners often increase the amount of pesticides and nitrogen fertilizers on vegetables before harvesting. This is very dangerous because when put into use, the residue of fertilizers and pesticides in vegetables is still very high because there is not enough time for them to decompose.

You should pay attention when choosing vegetables.

When you hold a bunch of young, lush cabbage with bright green leaves, no trace of insects, and a firm, even stem, it is considered a vegetable that has been fertilized with a lot of nitrate fertilizer. You should not use this type of cabbage, especially when eating it raw.

Bitter melon

When buying, it is best to look for small, long bitter melons with many tiny veins on their bodies. Large, dark green, smooth bitter melons with swollen bodies but shiny veins are those that have been overused with chemicals to keep them fresh.

Green beans

The shiny, hairless, long, and distinctly segmented green beans are the result of growers overusing foliar fertilizers. If all the beans on sale are free of insects, it means the beans were sprayed with pesticides before being sold.

You should choose bean sprouts with roots. Photo: NP

Bean sprouts

Bean sprouts with round, white stems and few roots are often attractive to housewives. However, they may be bean sprouts produced using toxic growth stimulants.

When the beans sprouted, the producer used foliar fertilizer mixed with diluted pesticide, watered the sprouts and then covered them tightly. This type of pesticide helps the bean sprouts germinate and grow quickly. When stir-fried, this type of bean sprouts will secrete a cloudy liquid.

Water celery

If sprayed with too much pesticide and fertilizer, the vegetable will grow large and have abnormally white shoots. If left without water for a day, the vegetable will dry up and the stem will shrivel.

Note: When processing leafy vegetables such as mustard greens, Chinese cabbage, cabbage... you should cut off the roots, separate each leaf, and remove damaged leaves. Then, soak the vegetables in diluted salt water or diluted potassium permanganate for about 15 minutes, then wash each leaf thoroughly under running water several times before further processing.

This method is simple but can clean most of the pesticides and fertilizers on vegetables, especially in the leaf crevices. In addition, it also helps clean worm eggs, parasites and dirt on vegetables.

According to VNE