How Do You Keep Fresh Vegetables And Fruits To Improve Longevity

Baby Boomer Health: Eating fresh fruits and vegetables Improve Longevity, but How Do You Keep Fresh Vegetables And Fruits To Improves Longevity? Some produce over ripens quickly and some take forever to ripen. How do you save money and eat fresh vegetables and fruits as well? Well, here are some quick tips for eating longevity:

How To Keep Fresh Vegetables And Fruits and You Looking Good Longer

If you want longevity, then eat local vegetables and fruit. Try these tips for preserving just-picked flavors and those all natural, revvvvvvvvv-you-up vitamins.

*  Apples: Buy by the bushel or half bushel and individually wrap the apples in newspaper and store in a single layer in a cool, dry, dark place. Once again the cellar, potato bins or if you have room, the bottom of vegetable bins.
*  Give broccoli, beets, carrots and kale air. Put them in perforated plastic veggie bags or airy, reusable cotton gauze produce bags (available online). If you can not afford the gauze on line, go to your local fabric store. If you want it to last long, stitch around the outside of the fabric. Chill in your vegetable crisper or the bottom of your refrigerator.

*  Eggs: Most refrigerators have a separate enclosed area for eggs but, if yours does not, isolate your eggs. They pick will pick up other food odors in a hard beat. With the recent egg scare, you might want to wash your eggs if you have egg concerns when you break that egg shell, you will want a clean shell surface.

*  Wrap melons. If that lovely melon ripens at room temp too fast, treat it like a baby: Wash, dry and wrap them it in plastic wrap or biodegradable BioFilm (green plastic wrap minus the cling, sold at health-food stores or online), then refrigerate them. If you have a cellar this is where your grand parents kept them. In the south, try using your potato bins.

*  Pears. Most of you know how pears look when they are over-ripen and lose nutrients…just soak them for up to 15 minutes in a citrus bath: 1 quart water and 1/4 cup orange or lemon juice.

*  Keep apples, cabbage and peaches away from other food, because they release odors (gases).

*  Keep the ends of celery (both ends), cabbage, green onions, lettuces, cut off and clean. Every time I use some I re-par the ends and wash again for a nice moisture bath.

*  Keep bananas out of plastic and if the ends look old cut them off. I keep them separate from other produce. Keeping them cold will keep them from ripening. When they are over ripe, use them for cookies or banana bread.

*  Remember to wash food that children or big kids would reach in and eat. Let them drain or gently dry them off. Pesticides, dirt or salmonella are not something that you want to feed your family or loved ones.

For those of you who hate vegetables and fruits and can not stomach the thoughts of eating them, remember that men and women need different supplements for vitamins.

We hope that “How Do You Keep Fresh Vegetables And Fruits To Improve Longevity,” has helped you save money and produce. Just like your Mother used to tell you, “eat your vegetables!”