Join me on a trip through grocery store produce section. We’ll talk about how to shop for the freshest, best, local, organic, and the best way to store them all.
The dirty dozen is what they call the list of the most important fruits and vegetables on the organic list. These are the ones that you're most concerned with if you want to go organic. A lot of people can't buy organic everything, but if you can focus on these twelve.
The dirty dozen are strawberries, spinach, kale, nectarines, apples, grapes, peaches, cherries, pears, tomato, celery and potatoes. These items are considered the most important to buy organic because they have the thinnest membrane on them.
Dan Sullivan talks about how to pick fresh produce. A paper bag is great for ripening a lot of fruit. There's a myth to not refrigerate tomatoes. When you want, you know you want your stuff ripe when you want it ripe.
Hey, everybody. How are you? It's Sundays with Dan and like I promised, we are here in the produce section at my local grocery store. I wanted to talk about grocery shopping, the do's and the don'ts, how to pick out the freshest produce, and what produce you really want to look at and consider when you're talking about buying or organic. Let's start with the organic first. So the most important, so I want to tell you about the dirty dozen. The dirty dozen is what they call the list of the most important fruits and vegetables on the organic list.
These are the ones that you're most concerned with if you want to go organic. A lot of people can't buy organic everything. So if you can focus on these twelve. Great. And if you can pick some of these and just try to, try to work in it as much organic as you can, you know, the more you can, the better. Right? We can't, we can't all do this, but if you can. Hey, Katie, welcome to the grocery. All right. So the first on the list of the dirty dozen, they call them the organics that you want is strawberries.
They're number one. The second on the list is spinach. The third on the list is kale, which is right down there. Then we've got nectarines. Nectarines are next. And then we've got apples. We got to move along because peep's got a shop. Let's move over here. I was holding up the produce. Apples are next. Grapes. Grapes. Our peaches. Peaches are over there. We'll talk about peaches in a minute. And then we've got cherries, pears, tomatoes, celery. You all know what a potato is. And potatoes. All right.
Those are what they call the dirty dozen. They are strawberries, spinach, kale, nectarines, apples, grapes, peaches, cherries, pears, tomato, celery and potatoes. So these items are considered the most important to buy organic because they have the thinnest membrane on them. And we're talking about pesticide residue and contamination on these. So these are the ones that are most important. If you want to focus on any of these, it'll get you there. Better than nothing, right. All right. So we're going to go around, we're going to talk a little bit about how to pick fresh produce.
The first thing I want to talk about is bananas. Right. So bananas that are ripe for when you want them, if you want them a couple days from when you pick them, you want them green. And if you want them right away, right. You want them ripe. But say you don't. You buy them green, and you don't want them to ripen really fast. Separate each banana off the bunch and wrap each with plastic wrap on the top. Okay? So say you buy green bananas and you decide, I want one now. You put the green bananas in a paper bag, close it up, and they will ripen overnight.
Okay, so that's a little tip on bananas. Right? Now, when we talk about tomatoes. Tomatoes, there's a myth to not refrigerate tomatoes. If your tomatoes are to the point where you want them ripe, throw them in the refrigerator. It's fine. Take them out, let them come to room temperature before you serve them on your burger or whatever. If you're making a sauce, it doesn't matter. But one thing to do if you want to inhibit the ripening of your tomatoes, you want to put it stem side down. Okay? And that will give you more time to use your tomatoes again.
If you want them to ripen a little bit faster, then you go ahead and put them in the paper bag. A paper bag is great for ripening a lot of fruit. You want your peaches, your tangerines. Is it tangerines? No. What's the no? Plums. Nectarine. You know, like peaches and plums and all the fruit that have that thin membrane. Apples, even. So, think about that when you're doing that. When you want, you know you want your stuff ripe when you want it ripe. Now, here's a trick about avocados. If your avocado is just as ripe as you want it, throw it in the fridge and you can get a couple days out of it.
If you want to throw it in the freezer, it'll halt the ripening process. And when you want it, you pull it out and it's just as right as you threw it back in, the texture will be a little bit different. So I don't recommend it if you're gonna slice your other. But, yeah, that's some stuff from me to you about walking through the produce section and kind of getting the most for your money. I want to jump on here again, so keep a lookout for me. Subscribe if you want. Give me a thumbs up. If you aren't here right now and you're watching this on replay, make sure you leave a comment and let me know, know what kind of content you want from me related to health and wellness.
Again, I'm Dan. I'm a life organization and culinary coach right here on Codre. Come on back and see us. Thanks, you guys.
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