Listeria Outbreak?

[lilbugsmomma]

With all of these veggie outbreaks it got me thinking, how do you wash your fruit and vegetables? I normally just give them a quick rinse in water. I'm thinking that I should probably start doing more. I know norwex sells a veggie wash. I wonder if it actually works?

[ReadingRenee]

Originally Posted by lilbugsmomma With all of these veggie outbreaks it got me thinking, how do you wash your fruit and vegetables? I normally just give them a quick rinse in water. I'm thinking that I should probably start doing more. I know norwex sells a veggie wash. I wonder if it actually works?

Ive been wondering about that veggie wash too.

I have been rubbing and rinsing and rubbing and rinsing much longer than normal. I don't know if it actually helps or not but it makes me feel better. I think the insidious thing about the cantaloupe was, who washes the outside of their cantaloupe? No one eats the outside. But in the future I will wash all the melons outsides that i might buy.

[SeaChellsRun]

Originally Posted by lilbugsmomma With all of these veggie outbreaks it got me thinking, how do you wash your fruit and vegetables? I normally just give them a quick rinse in water. I'm thinking that I should probably start doing more. I know norwex sells a veggie wash. I wonder if it actually works?

We use baking soda added to a sink full of water. It washes chemicals and pesticides off and neutralizes uranium & chlorine (which isn't in our water but in most). I also rinse the veggies after.

[SeaChellsRun]

Originally Posted by ReadingRenee Ive been wondering about that veggie wash too. I have been rubbing and rinsing and rubbing and rinsing much longer than normal. I don't know if it actually helps or not but it makes me feel better. I think the insidious thing about the cantaloupe was, who washes the outside of their cantaloupe? No one eats the outside. But in the future I will wash all the melons outsides that i might buy.

I wash everything as you cut into the fruit or veggie and bring the pesticides etc from the skin to the flesh. I had some mandarin oranges this week and didn't wash them before peeling... Well DD & I and our guest have not been feeling well and the only thing the three of us have eaten in common have been those mandarins.

...I only started doing that after I cut into a tropical grapefruit and the fruit was soooo sour because I cut it open instead you're supposed to cut the peel off then cut it open. Showed me how much of the outer layer you can spread over the flesh.

[SeaChellsRun]

Read this today....

Don't eat deli meat or soft serve ice cream (to avoid exposure to a potentially dangerous bacterium called Listeria).

[TS8213]

Originally Posted by SeaChellsRun Read this today.... Don't eat deli meat or soft serve ice cream (to avoid exposure to a potentially dangerous bacterium called Listeria).

Deli meat, OK, but soft serve ice cream? No way!

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[SeaChellsRun]

Originally Posted by TS8213 Deli meat, OK, but soft serve ice cream? No way! Sent from my Nexus S 4G using DS Forum

I know! I was really surprised. Apparently it can hang out in the machines