washing-vegetablesThe Importance of Food Washes

Water is the elixir of life. It helps keep you feeling fresh and clean. However, is it the cure-all when it comes to ensuring your family’s safety against the many pesticides, bacteria, and herbicides that are coating your produce? Why would an organic, non-toxic, and chemical-free food wash be a necessary staple in your kitchen? What about nasty bacteria like e-Coli – how can that be simply rinsed away?

The Dirty Truth

You already know to rinse your food before you begin your preparations for meals. You may be considering the dirt they are grown in when you are doing this. What you may not be thinking of are the bacteria that may be lurking and lingering even after the dirt is washed away – or the pesticides that are clinging to your food. Let’s be honest, if pesticides and herbicides were so easily washed away, a farmer would have a hard time keeping bugs off after a good rain. Bacteria are not easily washed away either. If water were a simple fix to washing away bacteria, a simple rinse of our hands would be able to keep away most common ailments. Even the CDC recommends washing your hands for as long as it takes you to sing ‘Happy Birthday’ with soap and warm water. Nevertheless, who wants soap on their food?

Why Organic, Non-toxic Food Washes?

First, we need to know that pesticides are a complicated mix of oil-based chemicals. Oil and water do not mix! This is why you cannot just rinse them away with simple water spritz. Even if you are a diligent organic shopper – Who else has touched your fruit!? Cross-contamination is very real. From the farm to the market, your produce can transfer many hands, and there are always the fruit and veggie squeezers, sniffers, and shakers that like to ‘test’ for ripeness. However, what they may have handled before touching your strawberries, you may never know. This is where your food wash comes in. iGOZEN’s organic, non-toxic, and chemical-free Fruit/Veg wash has been pH balanced to combat bacteria. Thankfully, science has figured out that different kinds of bacteria thrive at different pH levels. iGOZEN developed their products and lab tested them to go beyond the highest alkalinity that 99.9% of those bad bacteria can live. The great thing about nature is that it often provides what we need to combat what we have to battle. The non-toxic and chemical-free formula is all Earth friendly and can break down those oils that cause pesticides and toxins that stubbornly cling to your food!