How to distinguish organic vegetables from the vegetable nitrates

Nitrates – salts of nitric acid. They are in every living organism, so their presence in the human body is perfectly natural and is no harm. But the excess of these substances is dangerous to health. Basically, the nitrates enter the body from foods of plant origin, primarily from vegetables. Therefore, it is important to know how to distinguish the useful vegetables from nitrate.

How to determine the naturalness of vegetables

First and foremost, you want to track seasonality. If the season, for example, of tomatoes, has not yet come, and you see them on the shelves, so they imported. And in order to increase their shelf life, they add nitrates. Find out on the duration of the harvest seasons of your country and not be fooled.


Chemicals are added to the vegetables to keep their appearance. Therefore, if the products look unnaturally flawless, fresh and strong, most likely, they will not benefit you.

Remember, lice, and flies attracted by the aroma of natural products, so they completely ignore nitrate.

How to avoid mistakes when choosing vegetables

When choosing tomatoes pay attention to their color. If they have an orange tint, it means they were grown with application of fertilizers. Then try the tomato to the touch. Push down with your finger: if the skin does not burst and it left a dent from your finger, rather, the product is full of nitrates.

Sometimes the tomatoes are sold directly on the branches. Hemicalname tomatoes are nice and fresh, they do not detach from the branches, even if they begin to rot inside.

When choosing cucumbers move your hand over their surface. Soft, thin, easily erasable spikes talking about the genuineness of the product. Rude thorns and dark green skin means that cucumbers grew on nitrate plantations. If there is no smell of pickles to buy and not worth it.


Journalists held a special experiment in which revealed that the majority of cucumbers on the market and in supermarkets don't smell, and therefore taste.


When choosing carrots, note the color. Natural fully orange, it lacks the green and yellow specks.


When selecting cabbage do not think that the black dots and stains on it indicate the absence of nitrates. On the contrary, dark spots on leaves is a fungus that develops on nitrate in vegetables.


Test the cabbage. Leaves natural usually dense. The base of the leaves, the stalks should not be fat.


Potato tubers grown without added chemicals, are also recognized in appearance and to the touch. Potatoes with green spots suggests that the tubers had spent too much time in the sun. These stains are a sign of the presence of toxic solanine toxin produced in plants and are very dangerous to human health even in small doses.


Natural potatoes should be firm and elastic. Tubers, containing a large amount of pesticides and nitrates look smooth and even, and they feel quite soft.


If you press on the potatoes with a fingernail, you should hear the crunch. If the nail enters the tuber without sound, it means that such potatoes grown on mineral and nitrogen fertilizers.