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How to distinguish healthy vegetables and fruits from chemically treated ones

How to distinguish healthy vegetables and fruits from chemically treated ones

We are in the midst of a hot season and today we must not miss more fresh vegetable salads from our daily menu. Everyone knows the benefits of eating raw vegetables, but in recent years it has become increasingly difficult for growers to buy properly grown and cultivated vegetables and fruits without the addition of chemicals. If you don't see its history or growing information, what's the best fresh ingredient to eat?

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For example, stimulated fruits/vegetables are deformed ones, uneven and have long pistil areas. This means that it is a fruit that has been treated with a biostimulant. When you cut it, you can see that the center of the fruit has a whitish color. These are the main signs that you can easily look for to determine whether it is natural or chemically treated / stimulated .

The difference between natural tomatoes and tomatoes harvested after processing (for example) can only be determined based on analysis or trust in the producer. When we go to the market, the producers who have only a few tomatoes are the producer, and the rest of the mass are just traders.

They (fruits/vegetables) can be beautiful, consistent and healthy products. At the same time, there may be products derived from intensive soilless agriculture that use a lot of fertilizer. 

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