09/25/2019 / By Melissa Smith
The old saying is indeed true: “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.”
Many studies have explored the health benefits of apples. Here are just some evidence-based health benefits you can get from eating an apple:
Consuming apples will improve your health, given that they aren’t coated in toxic, cancer-causing pesticides and herbicides. It is worth noting that apples belong to the Environmental Working Group’s (EWG) Dirty Dozen list, which includes the produce with the most pesticides. Therefore, make sure that you’re consuming organic apples.
If you can’t find organic ones, washing, rubbing, and scrubbing your produce can help remove pesticides. Researchers from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst suggests another method: soaking it in a baking soda and water solution.
The researchers conducted a study to determine how effective different washing methods were at removing pesticides. They found that soaking apples in a baking soda solution for two minutes removed more pesticides than submerging them in a bleach solution or washing them in running water for two minutes. When they let the apples soak in the baking soda solution for 12 to 15 minutes, the pesticides used in the study were completely gone.
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