Homemade Vegetable Wash: Recipes

Homemade Produce Wash Recipe:

Basket Of Fresh Veggies

Directions:

• Mix ingredients then pour in clean spray bottle. Spray fresh vegetables & fruit generously. Sit for 5 minutes then rinse off well.
• Note: Make sure to first mix ingredients in deep container since there will be some fizzing from the baking soda & vinegar.

There are also these Fresh Fruit & Veggies Washing Tips:

• Sprinkle wet fruit and veggies with baking soda then gently scrub and rinse. This cleaning method safely removes dirt and residue off produce. Mentioned previously on this page: 50 Quick Tips For The Kitchen.
• A mix of 50/50 vinegar and water sprayed on fruit & veggies also works as a good produce cleaner. Let sit for a few minutes before washing off.

Fruit & Veggie Soak Recipe:

1/2 cup vinegar
3 TBS salt

• Mix ingredients to dissolve salt then add to sinkful of water (stir to mix). Soak fruit and veggies for 15 to 20 minutes. Remove, pat dry.

Homemade Produce Spray Wash Recipe

This post originally started as a feature tip from Handprints On The Wall with this homemade produce wash recipe:

I’d love to eat only organic, but as you know, it’s usually SO expensive! And with a grocery budget of $35/wk, I can’t afford to buy much organic.

If you are in the same situation, you don’t have to feel helpless. There is still something you can do to make your fruits and veggies much healthier. Here is a recipe for a produce spray that will do an excellent job of washing away the pesticides on your food, making them better for you and your family!

The recipe ingredients are water, white vinegar, baking soda and Grapefruit Seed Extract. Please visit the site to get the recipe details.

Did You Know: You should wash the outsides of melons before cutting through them? If you don’t, the knife will drag the pesticides/dirt/bacteria from the outside rind into the fruit as you cut. The outside of melons can carry some seriously nasty cooties. See Melons: Safe Handling Practices for Consumers (pdf).

*Updated, originally published published September 24, 2008.

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