While fruits and veggies can be some of the healthiest foods you eat, some have higher instances of pesticides than others.

That’s a good thing, for sure, but some confusion lingers about safe food handling, especially when it comes to fruits and ...

Root vegetables spend their entire lives buried in the dirt, so they always seem to bear at least a trace of grit—if not a ...

If you only use your salad spinner to dry your greens, then you're missing a crucial step. Here's how to correctly use the ...

It's called "The Dirty Dozen" and it's a cheat sheet of which fruits and vegetables you should always wash. The group analyzed 46,569 samples of 46 fruits and vegetables, tested by the US Food ...

Cleaning up your vegetable garden at the end of the season goes a long way toward avoiding pest and disease problems next year. You may have heard that it is a good idea to leave plant material ...

When it comes to washing your veggies, marketers have a solution that’s no better than water — but costs a whole lot more! Fruit and vegetable washes are cleaning your wallet faster than they’re ...

If you’ve got a dry spot in your basement, root cellar, or in an unheated garage, you’re in luck! Root veggies love cold, ...

One best kept in the past. Some things just don’t age well, especially when they’ve been cooked, but even the simple act of cutting a raw vegetable can kick off a process that affects the ...

This makes zero sense until it does. Washing fruits and vegetables is second nature for most of us before eating them or cooking them. Granted, I'm sure we've all, at some point, even taken a bite ...

If the scanner detects the presence of pesticides, you should give the fruit or vegetable another rinse. "It can often take ...