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🐝 Supplier / Origin : Local Small Farm HKORC Certified
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🛍 Supplier Information :
🌱 Supplier introduction : Healthy Express is a unique local online shopping platform. It cooperates with more than 30 local farms and importers to provide more than 1,500 kinds of goods, including fruits and vegetables, meat, seafood, poultry and eggs, etc. We offer local, organic, sustainable options. We use a fair trade price to purchase directly from farmers. The pricing enables producers and consumers to have a sustainable relationship, and the three parties benefit the most.
Some people advocate that sweet potatoes should be eaten with the skin on because sweet potatoes are rich in calcium and polyphenols. The skin should be washed thoroughly before cooking. The best nutrients can be absorbed when cooked with the skin on. And because less pesticides are added to sweet potatoes, you can buy better quality sweet potatoes and cook them with the skin on to absorb the complete nutrients. Sweet potato peel is rich in mucin and other polysaccharides, which can reduce blood cholesterol, maintain blood vessel elasticity, and prevent cardiovascular diseases such as arteriosclerosis and hypertension.
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After sprouting, sweet potatoes lose less nutrients and have a poorer taste, but they are still edible.
In 1995, American biologist Professor Se Schwartz discovered that sweet potatoes contain a chemical called dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), which can be used to prevent cardiovascular disease, diabetes, colon cancer and breast cancer.
☘️ Preserve vegetables
1. Leafy vegetables and softer vegetables, if packaged, should be placed in the cold box in the original package;
2. Organic Vegetables are more prone to spoilage if they have water droplets. Put the vegetables in a ventilated place to dry or wipe off the water vapor, then wrap the vegetables in slightly damp newspaper and put them in a plastic bag before refrigerating. ;
3. Organic vegetables do not use preservatives or special treatments. Vegetables are generally stored for three to five days. Some vegetables will decompose enzymes, so they should be eaten as soon as possible.
☘️ How to wash vegetables
1. Wash vegetables before cooking to keep them fresh;
2. It is not advisable to soak the vegetables for too long, and they should be washed first and then cut to avoid the loss of vitamins;
3. Washing vegetables with dilute salt water or Dish Drop can easily remove vegetable insects;
4. Cut vegetables with a stainless steel knife to reduce vitamin loss;
5. Vegetable leaves contain a lot of nutrients, so you should avoid shredding, chopping or grinding the leaves;
6. Immediately after cutting, to avoid the loss of vitamins due to air oxidation.
