How do you clean your fresh fruits and veggies before eating them? Do you just rinse them and call them good? How about your berries, grapes and other smaller fruits and veggies? Let me tell you a trick that I learned that removes all the gunk and makes your produce taste even better!!!
Lemon Essential Oil is one of the most versatile essential oils in my collection! It can be applied topically to your skin to help with various issues, you can diffuse it for its clean and uplifting aroma, you can even use it in your cooking, making lemonade or just flavoring your water and you can clean with it!!! Lemon EO is great to use when cleaning up sticky messes, especially children's finger prints on windows and mirrors.
So it made sense to me when I read that you can soak your fruit and veggies in a bowl of water with a drop or two of Lemon EO to remove all the gunk that does't come off in a quick rinsing! I was very hesitant to give this method a try because what if all my fruit tasted like lemons then??? I didn't want to ruin my fresh grapes! After being reassured that the lemon flavor does not soak into the fruit, I gave it a try.
WOW!!! I was VERY impressed at how CLEAN my fruit tasted! There was no residue left on the grapes, the skin was SOOOO smooth! I looked into the bottom of the bowl that I soaked my fruit in and was shocked at the leftover dirt and grime I saw! Crazy as it sounds, this made my day!!! I was excited! And I still am! I hope that you all try this! It is a totally safe and natural way to clean your fruit and veggies with minimal effort! Yes, it does take a little longer, but the results are worth it!
Here is what you do:
- Put fruit into a colander and give a quick rinse (this is where I would have normally stopped!)
- Placed the fruit into a stainless steel bowl and fill it with water so that most of the fruit is covered or floating
- Add 1-2 drops of Lemon EO
- Gently swirl and agitate the fruit
- Let the fruit sit for a few minutes
- Dump back into a rinsed out colander and give another quick rinse (Try to dump the fruit slowly so that the dirt and grime that has sunk to the bottom of the bowl doesn't all come back out. You could also scoop the fruit out of the water.)
- Eat and Enjoy!
To date, I have used this cleaning technique on green and red grapes, raspberries, strawberries and cherry tomatoes. Each time I was impressed with how much fresher my produce tasted! There's no turning back now! My kids love how much better the fruit tastes and I feel so much better knowing that we aren't eating a lot of extra dirt and who knows what else!
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