In order to avoid foodborne infections, it is important to wash your hands, dishes, and work surfaces thoroughly. But for food, these rules are quite ambiguous. Some products must be washed without fail, while others, on the contrary, should be kept away from running water, no matter how much you want to rinse them.
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It is necessary to wash fruits and vegetables:
with edible peel – regardless of where they were grown. It is enough to wash them with cool running water, you do not need to use soap: the porous surfaces of fresh products can absorb its ingredients
with inedible peel: bananas, avocados, grapefruit, lemons, limes, melon. There are often microbes on the peel, which can easily get under the peel if they are cut or peeled. To remove dirt from melon, cucumber or avocado, you can use a vegetable brush
