Saigon Sam Part 8: Food Washing Practices for Safe Eating in Vietnam

Guide to detoxification of vegetables and fruits in Vietnam using Vegy brand veggie wash and My Hao dish soap, both available from Coop Mart. Unsanitary and excessive food handling practices, excessive and essentially unregulated pesticide use, and occasional transportation residue deposition make such washing absolutely necessary. Good technique discussed here makes the difference between eating unsafe produce, ingesting soap from the washing process, or actually enjoying safe and healthy food.

If you're starving, buy a fruit from a street vendor and discard the peel. Whatever you do, don't eat at a restaurant outside the five star hotels, unless you like your vegetables prepared on the floor, or worse, the sidewalk. (I'm not kidding. You can see this in some other YouTube videos, and I've seen it in person myself.) People think that as long as it's cooked, they won't get sick. That's true if you're talking about bacteria and viruses (assuming that the staff washed their hands with soap, which is dubious), but motor oil, road dirt, and filth from the soles of people's shoes survive cooking!

Remember that washing the surface of a fruit or vegetable only removes the surface contaminants. It does not reduce "embedded pesticide" absorbed from the soil, nor does it increase the concentration of anticancer phytonutrients found in organic produce. At least, you'll survive!

Discussion starts after the first 3 minutes and 24 seconds of continuation from the previous video (Saigon Sam Part 7).

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[XWisdom]

No, he doesn't say that all imported products are good. Quite the contrary, he said that the junk food is probably even more unhealthy than the local stuff.

[KatiushaVN4]

Yeah, yeah, your U.S products are "best" & "very clean" blah blah blah.

You know what, we've just found micro-organism in the chicken drum sticks imported from U.S.A according to VTV News. Well, U.S products are "super clean"...LOL