How to properly wash a salad so that the sand does not crunch on your teeth

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Of all garden greens, the most problems with washing arise with lettuce leaves. No matter how you wash them, the sand will still crunch on your teeth. But if only sand. It is much worse if, together with the salad and sand, you eat representatives of the insect world, for example, a nematode.

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To wash the lettuce leaves thoroughly, many simply do not have enough patience and everything ends up being short-lived rinsing greens under running water. Only this is not enough.

The trouble is that, in addition to sand, nematodes live in large numbers in lettuce leaves – such small parasitic worms that harm health.

There are the opinion that not only the digestive organs suffer from them, but also there is a threat of developing diseases of the respiratory system, the nervous system, muscle pain and joint pain.

Pay attention first of all to the part of the plant where it the leaves are tightly attached to each other.

You cannot limit yourself to one rinse, so the salad is placed in a deep bowl of cold water for 15 minutes. And it is very desirable to repeat this procedure.

After that, the dirt and parasites will definitely settle to the bottom, and you will not be afraid for your health.