Can the pesticides/fertilizers from non-organic fruits and vegetables be simply removed by washing them well?!
Answers:
NO.
Many fruits and veggies are sprayed at several times in their growing season, when they are budding, when the flower is finished and again when the fruit or veg is ripening. Therefore the spray can be inside the fruit/veg in the core, on the outside of the fruit/veg and in the stem and blossom end.
The best thing to do is buy organic fruit and veg, thereby saving bees and honey bees from their frightening death due to pesticides and to stop the overuse of fertilizers which are manufactured as by products of the petroleum oil business.
there is a list of the top nastiest fruit and veg that are the most contaminated by pesticides. Google the list - should be able to find it somewhere - go to a local farmers market website and then google organic foods and pesticides and it should show up. EG Onions are the least sprayed of all the veggies, berries, apples and tree fruits are sprayed the most. It is an interesting and frightening list.
Good question, keep up the good work.
Chef
the pesticides n fertilisers are injected in the vegetables so they do not simply go with washing thm well....
Sometimes they get absorbed into the food.
That's what I do... :D
