How to properly wash fruits and vegetables
Whether they come from a busy grocery store, a local farmers market, or even your own garden, fruits and vegetables come into contact with countless surfaces and hands on their…
Determined to be flexitarian: Scrap fish and invasive species can liven up vegetables
Most of us struggle with eating enough vegetables. According to the World Economic Forum, only one in ten people in the EU gets the five portions of fruit and vegetables…
Developing new methods to detect antibiotics in vegetables and earthworms
UPV/EHU researcher Irantzu Vergara has succeeded in analyzing several antibiotic families in vegetables and earthworms simultaneously. Sampling carried out in several locations in the Basque Autonomous Community has provided data…
Uptake of tire wear additives by vegetables grown for human consumption
Car tires contain hundreds of chemical additives that can leak out. This is how they end up in crops and then into the food chain. Researchers from the Center for…
