How to choose cherries that have not been treated with pesticides

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No self-respecting buyer will take fresh fruits and berries at the market or in the store without looking. Even in a hurry, you need to carefully inspect the fruits, if not for spoilage, then for signs of chemical treatment. Here's what experts say.

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Strawberries on the market will no longer surprise anyone. Sweet cherries are increasingly in demand, which is not difficult to poison at this time of year. It's no secret that most fruits and berries arrive on our shelves from far away, and some even ripen on the way.

To extend their shelf life and at the same time protect them from pest attacks, fruits are treated with chemicals.

At a minimum, treated fruits have an unpleasant taste, at most, you can get food poisoning.

How to choose

A cherry treated with such preparations will have a whitish hollow. It is located where the stem attaches to the berry. If the berry has been treated with some kind of pesticide relatively recently, then there will be a whitish coating in this depression, says agronomist Mikhail Vorobyov.

The secret is that during transportation the berry is rubbed and the coating on its main part may disappear.

The above depression remains intact and can tell a lot about which cherries it is better not to buy.