Nowadays it is the "IN" thing to do - reading food labels at the grocery store. But what about your fresh fruit and veggies? They don't have labels. and short of growing your own vegetables in your own home garden, you don't have a clue So many questions really should be asked What kind of soil were they grown in? Were there pesticides used? What were they washed in? How were they stored? How many hands have touched them? The list goes on.......
While we may not be able to get answers to these questions, we can mitigate some of the damage to our bodies from the answers we don't know. How can we mitigate what we don't know? Here are some ideas for you.
First, almost all commercial growers use toxic pesticides of some kind on their farms. This means a couple of things for you and your body. 1) You will end up ingesting some of this pesticide when you eat your food because the plant will have incorporated the pesticide as it grew. 2) You will end up ingesting some of the toxic chemicals that the items were washed in because plain vinegar or water will not wash all the chemicals off the produce no matter how long it sits or you scrub. And 3) there is no way of knowing what was on the hands of people who touched the produce, so it's a safe bet that water or vinegar alone will not wash off the bacteria or other grunge on the produce.
Now that the bad news is out of the way - here is your GOOD news! There is an solution to the last 2 scenarios above. What is it you ask? It's Thieves Fruit and Veggie wash! https://www.youngliving.com/en_us/products/thieves-fruit-veggie-soak And for those instances when it's only a single piece and not a whole bunch - there is Thieves fruit and veggie spray! https://www.youngliving.com/en_us/products/thieves-fruit-veggie-spray-2oz In each of the above products, you can be assured that there are no harsh chemicals.
Here is my story. I came home from my local grocery store with some bags of prewashed and precut veggies. Before Young Living, I would have taken the advertising at face value and just put them away for use without rewashing or rinsing. Because they were labeled as prewashed, right? I mean who wants or needs to rewash what you've already paid to have done?
On a whim. I took the produce out of the bags, and put them in the sink and poured in some water and a capful (I mean a capful?) of Thieves Fruit and veggie soak. I swirled the produce around a few times, and let it sit for a couple minutes while I put the rest of the groceries away. I cam back to the sink and pulled out the veggies to rinse over the other section of my dual sink and put away.
That's when I got the surprise of the week. There was dirt, grunge and grime in my soaking side!!!!!!! YUCK. Honestly, the amount of yuck that came off the "prewashed" veggies almost made me gag, Not just because I had almost not rewashed them again, but the thought that all that would have gone into my body if I hadn't.
Sometimes clueless is good, but in this case it could be dangerous to your health. Not because of what you see, but what you don't see. In this day and age of Covid and other microbateria/viruses, and extra wash of your produce at home is a good thing. And it gets even better with Thieves Fruit and veggie soak or spray because of the added benefit that the blend Thieves brings to the table - by supporting your immune system.
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