Green vegetables are beneficial for health and everyone often eats green and fresh vegetables. But do you know that chemicals are being used in these green vegetables? Finding truly chemical-free green vegetables in the market can be quite challenging. People often buy it in the name of freshness, but they do not know that they are consuming chemicals and not fresh green vegetables.
The use of chemicals helps in making the vegetables stale instead of fresh, but it can be harmful to people’s health. Many of these chemicals are such that they can cause serious diseases like cancer. Often vegetable sellers use a chemical called malachite green to make their vegetables green and shiny. This chemical is mostly used in frozen green peas.
Is the person from whom you are buying this green vegetable also using this chemical? This can be detected. Whenever you buy any green vegetable, there is a liquid called Liquid Paraffin in it, you have to take it with the help of a cotton ball and rub that vegetable with cotton. If the cotton ball turns green after rubbing, then understand that chemicals have been used in it.
And if you want to find out the chemical in frozen peas, then you have to soak some peas in water for half an hour. If the color of the water turns green, then understand that chemicals have been used in the entire frozen peas. In Jharkhand, most of the vegetable sellers have been caught using this malachite green chemical in their green vegetables.
All people need to be aware of this issue. We must choose our diet by looking for healthy and safe food items. Apart from this, we should take care to check and know the quality of vegetables by visiting the markets around us. This will create a healthy and safe environment in our society, which is most important for us and our families.
