WHY STERILIZING FRUITS & VEGETABLES
You can live an infection-free lifestyle in spite of the pandemic .
Someone may want to ask; why do you need to sanitize fruits and vegetables?
Fruits and vegetables go through a quite a journey before they make it into your crisper drawers, and along the way, they pick up things you don’t want to be eating, like wax, dirt, and chemical pesticides. They can also harbor pathogens that cause foodborne illness, an issue that affects one in six Americans every year according to the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC).
COVID-19 adds another threat to the list of things that might be lurking on your fruits and vegetables, and that’s germs from people who may have touched the produce before you purchased it. That being said, the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) notes that there is currently no evidence of COVID-19 transmission through food or food packaging. The need to sanitize fruits and vegetables before consuming them is still mostly related to those aforementioned wax, dirt, chemicals, and pathogens, with extra steps right now providing more peace of mind than anything. Global pandemic or not, it’s always smart to sanitize fruits and vegetables; properly washing fresh fruits and vegetables is a good habit to practice to minimize the ingestion of potentially harmful residues and germs.
Fresh produce is handled by numerous people before you purchase it from the grocery store or the farmer’s market. It’s best to assume that not every hand that has touched fresh produce has been clean. with all of the people constantly bustling through these environments, it’s also safe to assume that much of the fresh produce you purchase has been coughed on, sneezed on, and breathed on as well.
Adequately sanitization of fresh fruits and vegetables before you eat them can significantly reduce residues that may be left on them during their journey to your kitchen. Sanitizing fresh fruits and vegetables is a proven way to remove germs and unwanted residues from their surfaces before eating them.
Most of the fruits and vegetables that we purchase from the market come laced with harmful contaminants like bacteria, viruses, and several other infectious agents, making it harmful to human health. Pesticides are primarily used for cultivation of crops, keeps fruits and vegetables safe from insects and pests. However, the residue of these pesticides stay on the produce, which can be life-threatening at times, by damaging the nervous and reproductive systems, disrupting the immune system, and even leading to cancer in some cases. The risk factors make it necessary to sanitize vegetables in the right way to stay safe from diseases. Sanitizing fruits and vegetables with water doesn’t remove the harmful pesticides and chemicals from the surface. So, how do you ensure that the fruits and vegetables you eat are completely safe? We have the solution here with us.
Just washing fruits and vegetables under running water is not enough. Water usually just removes the dirt present on the surface. But what about the chemicals and pesticides?
Our technology helps you clean the pesticide and bacterial residues from the surface of food items and ensure that you and your family consume fresh and healthy food. P-H2O helps in removing all the pathogens, germs, and viruses from the surface of fruits and vegetables; thus, making it safe for human consumption, and at the same time, keeps them fresh for a longer period of time and also increases the shelf life.
Hypochlorous Acid has gained more interest recently in food sanitation and safety against plant pathogens, seed treatment, postharvest disease control, fungal control, and foodborne pathogens. It has been demonstrated to be a wide antimicrobial spectrum for the inhibition of multiple microorganisms with important anti-inflammatory and proliferative activity but without side effects such as irritation of the mucosa