If you buy pre-washed salads at the supermarket your healthy choice maybe more like a health hazard!
Fresh is best now comes with cautionary undertones as pre-cut or pre-washed produce involves considerably more processing & handling. This elevates the risk of problematic pathogens and harmful bacteria reaching consumers.
After the ‘Spinach Crisis’ of 2006 which demonstrated the critical necessity for better food safety measures to be implemented the leafy green industry acknowledged the need for and developed new standards of control. Strict guidelines encourage better regulation of the processing methods our produce must go through but is no guarantee our salad is safe!
Those of us who acknowledge this will usually give our pre-washed salads a second rinsing but studies indicate this is an ineffective way to battle bacteria. So should busy bodies choose fast food over fresh food thats fast? Definitely not! We still stand to gain more benefit from fresh foods than drive thru dinners, devoid of any goodness.
So what is the solution to salad safety? The Basil Bomb a tasty dressing that adds flavor as it fights off microbes which maybe lurking in your leafy greens!
Basil a relative of peppermint is a favorite ingredient in Italian cuisines often being added to pasta or made into pesto. This flavorful and fragrant herb awakens the pallet exploding like a taste bomb in your mouth.Best of all Basil offers a bite with benefits and has ben shown to inhibit several types of bacteria such as staphylococcus, enterococcus, pseudomonas, and e. coli.
But the brilliance of Basil doesn’t end there, it is also a powerful antioxidant consisting of two particularly useful flavonoids – orientin and vicenin that protect cell structures and chromosomes against damage from radiation and oxygen. It is a good source of Vitamin A helping to prevent cholesterol from building up in the blood vessels. Other nutritional elements present in Basil include, magnesium to prevent muscle cramps, iron to help with circulation, calcium for strong bones, potassium to restore body balance and Vitamin C to boost immunity!
So add Basil to your vinaigrette then drizzle it liberally over that fresh salad this will help fight bacteria and put flavor into each bite!
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