This headline stopped me and had me exasperated. "Don't Eat This Year's Strawberries-Unless You Clean Them With This Kitchen Staple"
We have a strawberry patch in our backyard and this year the crop of berries was unbelievably big. Strawberries just filled the small area behind our garage in its own raised bed. This is the third year for them and first time we've had a huge beautiful crop. So seeing this headline irritated and worried me.
In the end, the point of this story is: "strawberries are number one in the Dirty Dozen, meaning they often contain the most pesticides out of every other fruit or vegetable."
Well, that is not our problem thankfully. We used no pesticides on ours at all. But store bought berries may still have some residue and the way to get them at least partially safe is to clean them using water with vinegar in it. Or, buy organic strawberries.
I still say this article is a bit overdone. Here are some of our daily strawberries.
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