Tips on Selecting Fresh Fruits and Vegetables

Tips on choosing fruits and vegetables are good and fresh When you buy fruit or vegetables, you definitely want the freshest not ?. And of course you want to Healthy Living, But unfortunately fruits and vegetables do not come with an expiration date. I have compiled some tips to help you to choose fruits and vegetables that is sure to be fresh.

Fruits and vegetables have a season and you certainly can not always find good quality or that you want.

Always check for fruits and vegetables were dirty, especially the holes where insects can enter inside. Many stains on the surface does not affect the quality of the fruit or vegetables. But that's where the weak points of germs will spread quickly to the whole fruit or vegetable, and if you have already opted vegetables that might have withered then not good to be processed because if it is too long then the vegetables are assumed to be not fresh anymore.
If you want to buy fruit or vegetables that you want to save first then choose the fruit that still fresh.

1.   Fresh Vegetables

 

Next select the leaf vegetables and fresh the rod are still colored or pale 

A. Green

Broccoli, celery, kale, spinach, etc. still should always choose the fresh green and crisp. If it starts to look wilted, pale, or brown you better look for somewhere else.

B. Select crisp and heavy head

1.       Root vegetables including radishes, carrots, beets, sweet potatoes, etc: 

 

root vegetables should still feels heavy. The skin should be smooth, not wrinkled or already shrunken, fruit and vegetables while at the kiss should smell fresh and have an attractive color when viewed.

2.      Onions:

 

Must be heavy and hard, with dark skin and no young leaves growing on it

3.       Spinach:

 

If you want choose spinach are good for consumption choose not wilted spinach and green leaves with no black or elderly usually there are sellers who sell spinach was no longer young.

4.       Watercress:

 

Watercress is still fresh yet still hard to wilt and the stems are still accompanied by its roots. If wither try because you do not buy vegetables that wilt and already ​​not guarantee it was still tasty vegetable consumption

5.       Mushrooms: 

 

                White, if it is the original color of the mushroom fungus then choose a smooth and do not there is already mucoid or soft (mushy). Check the end of the mushroom stems, dark or brown if you have to examine whether the dirt from the stem (ground) if not you do not buy it, and usually that has no trunk he must be white.

2.    Fresh fruit 

 

1.       Citrus fruits such as lemon, lime, orange terrain:

 

The smell should be fresh and no soft spots or scratches the surface of the brown would affect the fruit

2.       Apples:

 

The skin should be smooth with no stain and hard if we suppress it feels soft when it marked the fruit is not good possibility fruit fall or hit by a foreign object.

3.       Cucumber, eggplant, and peppers:

 

Must be heavy, not wrinkled, the color should be bright without any dirt on the skin

4.       Melon:

 

Press the top of melon, if it is soft, it marked ripe. Ripe melon also secrete a sweet smell. The stronger the smell, the fruit, the better.

5.       Ripe watermelon:

 

knock the fruit. If you hear a hollow sound in the fruit then it was overcooked. Also, lift and look below: maybe the skin should be slightly yellowish color.
    If you are going to buy young jackfruit you have to look from the skin usually light green color and no signs of black or brown that maybe it was rotten.

6.       Tomatoes:

 

should you choose tomatoes bright red or dark green because it marks if tomatoes are old or mature and pick tomatoes fresh tomatoes were still smooth and there are no black spots and choose one that has a texture rather hard or not too soft because the tomato is good is still somewhat hard

7.       Bananas:

 

Usually bananas are still green is young banana, if you want to buy a ripe bananas you have to pay attention to the color of his skin usually ripening banana skin in a state of aging will be colored dark yellow and usually there are black spots at the base of the fruit

8.       Grape:

 

choose the grape in a state still become one with its trunk and choose a grape that is old is usually old dark purple color and do not choose a color that is not fresh anymore because fruit is not fresh does not have the vitamins we need in the fruit

9.      Strawberries:

 

should you choose which already ripe red or dark red because it is a sign the fruit is ripe in the state are old and you better buy it in the supermarket or department because usually his stored in a good place


That's a few tips from me in order to pick the fruit and vegetables we are not easily fooled and may be useful for readers ....

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