What are organic vegetables? How to tell the true from the false?

Vegetable is one of the indispensable foods in people's daily diet, which refers to a kind of plants or fungi that can cook and cook as food, including cabbage, eggplant, tomato, cucumber, towel gourd, balsam pear, cowpea and so on. What are organic vegetables? How to tell the true from the false?

What are organic vegetables?

1. Organic vegetables refer to the prohibition of the use of any chemically synthesized pesticides, fertilizers, growth regulators and other chemical substances, as well as genetically engineered organisms and their products, in strict accordance with organic production procedures in the process of vegetable production, but follow the laws of nature and ecological principles, adopt a series of sustainable agricultural techniques, coordinate planting balance, and maintain the sustainability and stability of the agro-ecosystem. Vegetable products that have been certified by organic food certification bodies and issued organic food certificates.

2. The production of organic vegetables must be produced in accordance with the environmental quality requirements and technical standards of organic food production, so it has the characteristics of no pesticides, no chemical fertilizers, no hormones, no transgene, no pollution, rich nutrition and high quality. it is safe to eat, nutritious and healthy, but it has the disadvantages of few producing areas, few products and high price.

3. With people's higher and higher requirements for food safety, organic vegetables are loved by more and more citizens, and they have no chemical residues, taste good, and are more nutritious than ordinary vegetables. People need it day by day, that is, the average price sold is 4-5 times higher than that of common vegetables, and it can not generally come to the public table.

Second, how to identify genuine and fake organic vegetables?

Method 1. Look at the appearance: vegetables of similar length, same size, straight and beautiful, and selling very well are mostly fake organic vegetables with antistaling agents, chemical fertilizers, pesticides and fungicides; vegetables of different lengths, sizes, crooked and straight, uneven colors and yellow leaves with wormholes are real organic vegetables.

Method 2. Touch the leafy vegetables with your hands, the hard ones are fake organic vegetables, and the soft ones are real organic vegetables; wash in water, if there is a small amount of foam or slippery feel or light green water, it is a fake organic vegetable.

Method 3, smell the smell: put the vegetables in the pocket or send them directly to the nose to smell, the ones with agricultural flavor or tasteless are fake organic vegetables, and the ones with clear smell are real organic vegetables.

Method 4, taste: when cooking, there is no water or a small amount of water, it tastes good when eating, and the corresponding food has an inherent rich taste, which is a real organic vegetable; there is a lot of water when cooking, and the taste is light when eating it. and the corresponding food inherent taste is very weak is fake organic vegetables.

Method 5, look at the packaging: see if there is a certification mark for organic food, if there is, it is a real organic vegetable, if not, it is a fake organic vegetable; see if there is a clear producer and verification unit relevant information on the packaging, you can check on the relevant websites based on these.

Method 6, identify the store: you can buy it from an organic food store or a regular supermarket, or you can go to the organic farm to inspect and pick it up.

Method 7. Look at the storage time: fake organic vegetables will produce some small brown spots after 1-2 days of storage, and will rot and deteriorate after 1-2 days; real organic vegetables will be stored more than twice as long and will only wilt. Won't go bad in a short time.

The above is the explanation of organic vegetables and the introduction of true and false identification methods. I hope it will be useful to you.