Kitchen Kapers: DIY Fruit & Veggie Wash
This DIY Fruit and Veggie Wash is a simple way to naturally (and inexpensively) clean your fruit and vegetables. Just one simple ingredient!
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How to Make DIY Fruit & Veggie Wash
A simple 1 ingredient cleaner!
I have been using this simple 1-ingredient cleaning method to wash my fruit and vegetables for years. It’s as easy as filling a sink with water and vinegar, then adding your fresh produce to soak. Inexpensive, easy and effective!
How do I know my fruit and vegetables are clean?
All you have to do is look at the water. It’s dirty. Brownish and with pieces of wax and debris from the produce.
After soaking, why do some of my fruits and vegetables have a white layer on them?
When you get produce from the market it’s always shiny, and the vinegar from this wash dissolves most of that shiny layer, and what you are seeing is just the remnants of that.
Will my fruits and vegetables taste like vinegar?
No. If you rinse well, there is no vinegar taste. Even in the berries.
Let’s talk about berries.
You can use this cleaning method to wash berries as well. You just can’t let them soak as long as you would apples or oranges. I will only soak mine for about 5 minutes or so. Rinse well.
Fruit and Veggie Wash Tips:
- Ratio: Basic cleaning ratio of 1 cup vinegar to 4 cups water.
- Vinegar: Use regular white household vinegar.
- Soaking: You can make this wash and soak your produce in your clean kitchen sink, or feel free to use a bucket.
- Scrubbing: Feel free to lightly scrub your produce with the vinegar/water solution after it has soaked. This will get rid of any remaining wax and dirt.
- Rinsing: Make sure to rinse your produce well after soaking in the vinegar/water solution.
- Drying: After rinsing, lay your produce out to dry on a clean tea towel.
Clean. Ready to eat fruit and vegetables.
DIY Fruit and Veggie Wash
Ingredients
- 1 cup white vinegar
- 1/4 sink filled with lukewarm water
Instructions
- Make sure your sink is very clean. Or if you wish, use a large clean bucket.
- Fill a sink halfway with lukewarm water.
- Add 1 cup of white vinegar.
- Mix.
- Add your fruit. Don't over fill your sink with fruit.
- Soak for about 10 minutes (shorter for berries - about 2 - 5 minutes).
- Rinse well.
- The Result: Clean fruit.
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Re “filling sink” with water – not such a great idea since your sink is a germ filled arena, defeating the purpose. Use a large bowl for your vinegar wash – not as convenient, but much cleaner..
Did this today! I had 3.3 lbs of berries to clean. Whew! Thanks.
Thanks!! I use vinegar for a lot of things but somehow never used it on my fruit. I have been cleaning my fruit with
baking soda and have noticed a lot of fluid retention as a result. Will have to try the vinegar.
Hi,
It’s important to use purified water for both the soak and the rinse. There’re parasites and other contaminates in tap water. For all fruits and veggies that I eat raw (even those that need to be peeled), I add grapefruit seed extract to the water. For cooked veggies, the vinegar is fine and doesn’t really need purified water.
It will if it has parasites!
The vinegar also stops moulds from growing on your fruits and veg, so they stay fresher longer.
I use this strategy but a little different.
I first put the water in the sink, then the fruits and vegetales after that I add Vinager and Baking Soda and leave it there for 8-15 minutes. Then rinse, scrub and dry and everything is set.
Just to let you know and it is very important, is that some vinegars are made from a petroleum base and it is not required to be mentioned on the ingredients list of the container. My children are allergic to petroleum and coal tar based products, this is how I know. I belong to the Feingold organization and we research all our products. Furthermore, some vinegars are made from GMO corn, so if you get an organic vinegar, chances are you will be free from a GMO and petroleum base. It is good to know this because as the vinegar may remove some pesticide residue, it allows other equally harmful contaminants to seep in if it is not pure.