How to choose a safe health early strawberries.
Juicy, beautiful and very aromatic – the first strawberries are already attracting attention to the stores and markets. But nutritionists warn that the early strawberries can be hazardous to health.
Now missed the fresh vitamins, the body is constantly reacting to bright radish, juicy colors the first cucumbers and tomatoes, for such a welcome smell of strawberries. How can you resist? But when choosing berries, you should know some basic rules and be prepared.
Remember that first berry – not always the most useful. Home grown it on the ground and not disdain by many is to make a profit. Sometimes to increase productivity and accelerate growth and maturation, as well as to best preserve the strawberries generously fertilized with chemicals. Grown under a sunlight film without an excess of chemicals berry becomes a cause of allergies in adults and children – so say the nutritionists, and allergists.
It is also important to remember that eating even the most pure and naturally grown strawberries can trigger the release of histamine.
When selecting berries, you should pay attention on some facts. It is clear that soft berry contains a lot of water, which is released in the form of strawberry juice during storage. But nitrates are able to retain moisture and with excessive amount of berry juice is not allowed, even if kept for 3-4 days and more.
Should not shy away from dry berries, making a clear conclusion. But you should be alerted if the box will not be any crushed berries, despite the fact that some traces of legality and mold.
To increase shelf life, some manufacturers treated already gathered the early strawberries with smoke, which consists of a biphenyl – a hazardous substance banned in most countries, including in Ukraine. Diphenyl may cause poisoning, dermatitis and allergies – because this is a real carcinogen.
Bought some strawberries on the sample, dip the berries in warm (even hot) water, if the surface of formed oil film – so it is treated with diphenyl.
But even when choosing early strawberries should pay attention to its color – if the berries are noticeable dark spots, even of small size, it is an indication that they were treated with nitrate. We all know that this drug often used to stimulate growth of berries, and on the human body nitrate can act negatively to cause toxicity or Allergy.
When strawberries are perfectly shaped but not let the juice during storage and after washing, does not crease after falling on hard surface – there is a possibility that it is oversaturated with chemicals.
