Pumpkin 'bath' many chemicals: Recognize too simple

According to the study, among nearly 5,000 cases of food poisoning each year, the main reason is due to eating vegetables, tubers and fruits that contain pesticides, growth stimulants.

In green vegetables, pumpkin is the favorite dish of Vietnamese people in their daily meals. However, this vegetable is classified as being heavily bathed with chemicals and stimulants.

Go outside to look at the bunch of smooth green pumpkin vegetables, long meters in length but still small from the root to the top that buyers can not help wondering "what kind of vegetables are good, young?"

Ms. Do Minh Hong, owner of a clean vegetable shop on Nguyen Hong street, Hanoi, said: "For long-lasting vegetables to catch the eye, growers often apply a lot of protein and spray insecticides. This is usually very long and very young, sometimes, the vegetable section, straight and flat, is still long and still young from root to tip ".

With this vegetable, the stalks are very long, the petiole is also very long, soft and easily crushed, the arms are short and fuzzy, with little fluff, squash is light green, the leaves are dark green or light green nature. These are the vegetables with excess nitrogen, sprayed with foliar fertilizer and not enough time to isolate.

Vegetable pumpkin.

This pumpkin vegetable is good for eating protein and stimulants very quickly, so the outer skin between the burns, stalks and veins is very thin so it is difficult to remove, even if it is not stripped.

And the secret vegetable, usually only 3 to 4 leaves on the leaf color of young leaves, solid body, many silk cages, leaves with natural green color, the arms are usually thin and long. If the vegetable section is long, the part near the root will often get old, many fibers, not from the root to the top like the other vegetables.

Ms. Duong Ha My, another owner of a fresh vegetable shop in Kim Ma Street, Hanoi, said: "When you go to buy pumpkin vegetables, you should not just see young vegetables and long tops and rush to buy, you need to consider and choose. choose carefully before buying ".

In addition to looking at the appearance of vegetables, see how short and colorful it is, when processing, you need to pay attention. When vegetables have lots of stimulants, when washing vegetables, it is easy to be crushed, no need to crunch the leaves and crumbles, the stalks and the body are easily broken.

When stir-fry, vegetables are easily tarnished, crushed, eat viscous, powdered powder, no natural aroma and a strong sweet taste of clean squash vegetables. For a long time, the vegetable juice will turn into a very dark green.

And the squash is clean, often with thick crust, thick veins, so it is easy to strip. Vegetable leaves are so rough that when crumbling, the body with the petiole is not crushed.

When cooking, even though the island is abundant, the pumpkin is not secret, cooking longer than the pumpkin variety. Fresh, clean vegetables will see the sweet taste and the taste of natural pumpkin vegetables.