Washing strawberries with salt water is actually possible, but not the optimal choice, many people think that washing strawberries with salt water is the best way, in fact, salt water is not good, salt water will accelerate the decay of strawberries, and it will only shorten the storage time of strawberries. Therefore, washing strawberries with salt water is not the best optimal choice, of course, it is okay to eat them immediately after soaking. After all, the strawberries themselves can't be kept for too long, and it's okay to eat them immediately after soaking them in salt water.
Two, what are the ways to wash strawberries
1. Rinse under running water, after buying fresh strawberries, do not rush to soak them in water. You should first put them under a hose and then rinse them under running water so that you can wash off all the bacteria, pesticides and other dirt from the surface of the strawberries. If you soak them in water, it is easy to wash the pesticides off their surface in the water and allow the substrate to reabsorb it in the future, which will get into the strawberries even if you can't wash them anymore.
2. Process the strawberries, and after rinsing them under running water, remove them for processing. Remove the leaves from the bottom of the strawberry, but remember, do not remove the strawberry's stem, as the strawberry will still be submerged in water after processing. If you remove the straw, pesticide residues on its surface will enter the strawberry in that area and create new contamination.
3. Salt water immersion, put the processed strawberries in a basin, add a teaspoon of table salt, then add enough water, gently stir with your hands to dissolve the table salt, so that you can pour the heart of light salt water on the surface of strawberries fresh strawberries can remove all insects and eggs in fresh strawberries, which plays an important role in disinfection and sterilization.
4. rice water cleaning, soak the strawberries in salt water, remove it, and then put it again into a clean basin, add the rice water that usually wash the rice, soak for 10 to 15 minutes, because the rice water is alkaline, it will affect the surface of the strawberry. The residual pesticides have a certain decomposition effect and contain a certain amount of starch, which has a certain adsorption effect on the dirt on the surface of strawberries. After washing with rice water, the strawberries will become particularly clean, use water before eating, rinse again.