Washing your produce doesn’t eliminate all pathogens, but it can reduce the risk of foodborne illness. However, washing produce also introduces moisture, which comes with its own risks. In most cases, ...

It's common knowledge that you have to wash fresh vegetables before you eat them. This is because they can pick up traces of chemicals, fungi, and microbes, including bacteria like salmonella, ...

Adequately washing fresh fruit and vegetables is Cooking 101, but does soaking produce really make it safer to eat? A video of aphids crawling over a bowl of broccoli has gone viral on TikTok, ...

Wash fresh fruits and vegetables in clean, running water. As Americans continue to do everything possible to ward off germs with hand sanitizers, disinfectant wipes and more amid the coronavirus ...

Like washing your hands before eating or handling food, you should always wash your produce before eating or cooking it. But why? How? And when—before or after storing it? For starters, fresh produce ...