hey whats up this is david benjamin from healthywildandfree.com today i want to share with you how you can keep your produce lasting longer in the fridge whether it be fruits or vegetables or whatever you keep in your fridge now it's important to understand that native cultures and old peoples and past decades and such didn't have frigerators they actually sort their food in earth it's kind of quite a live pretty close to Henry Ford's home he had in this state and if you go on the estate property and on the left-hand side you can actually see there's basically this hill and it's kind of in the ground and there's a big wooden door and he used to store pears apples and produce in the actual Hill in the earth and wrap it up in like newspaper or paper bags or something and the coolness of the earth would preserve it and I'm sure the elements of the earth you know with obviously some some oxygen a little bit that tongues there's not a lot of greens or anything but the oxygen and minerals from the douro river maybe probably preserved it longer than refrigerator and it's funny because Henry Ford had refrigerator brand new state-of-the-art refrigerator in his home but he still put his food and outdoors in nature there so it's kind of interesting and kind of cool fact but it's interesting because one of the things i hate about me eating healthy and if you like me in any way is to open your fridge and to see those greens turn brown or that tomato turn old or whatever may be the cedar your produce go bad really sucks because if you buy packaged foods you know crackers cookies chips max whatever be those things don't go bad so it's kind of nice that they don't go bad but you want to eat healthy so the food that goes bad there's things you can do to prevent that from going bad and it kind of sucks too many open your fridge and you want to have a tomato or have something and you know you have it a fridge and open it's got mold or fungus on or whatever it may be so these tips I'm going to share with you will help you preserve that produce longer keep it fresher and allow you to enjoy that produce longer just create your fridge in an environment that sustains that food longer so it prevents it from aging and oxidizing all these different things so the first thing you can do is actually just take baking soda and put it on a plate or on top of a uh in a bowl or anything like that and just set it in your fridge and leave in your fridge baking soda has natural kind of properties that attract bacteria mold whatever it may be anything that could aid oxidizer food and attracts it to the to the baking soda as opposed to the food so it's sort of a distraction to delay your food from aging and oxidizing and going bad and growing fungus or mold or whatever it may be there works really well and the baking soda will actually turn sort of brown you can also get a product called blue apple that's BL you Apple I'll link it up right below this video it's an ethylene absorbing bag and it's in a little plastic blue looking apple and basically produce gives up I guess known as ethylene and this absorbs that so it doesn't build up in age and cause the food you approach to go back quicker so I'd simple product i think is like five or ten bucks on amazon like i said lick it up below on amazon so you can read the reviews and read moreabout and everything but those two things are probably two easiest quickest things you can do a baking soda and ethylene bags the product Lou Apple you can also basically one of most important things is to take the food out of fish clean it and wipe it down and make sure it's completely dry if something goes bad you know for example tomatoes or different fruits that juice will fall into the crisper or fall into the fridge and it just sits there an increase of moist environment moist environment your fridge causes you food to agent go by quicker so just making sure your fridge is clean and wiping it down with a natural cleaner and making sure it's dry as well before you put your food back in it's very important and it will help prolong your food as well you can also there's two different zones of thought processes on this next tip I want to share with you some people say I don't watch referred to be excuse me don't want reporters before you put it in the fridge because if you watch your produce the produce would be a little bit wet and then it will cause the produce to go back quicker I sorta grew that same time I sort of don't because if you're buying an organic produce and if pesticides and things like that on the food throwing all that in the fridge it's just going to stay in the foot longer it's going to be harder to clean and get those pesticides and fungicides and sides sides the word sides meeting death out and off the food so that you can eat it and avoid those if you do clean your produce before you put it in the fridge you can clean it but just make sure to try so maybe leave it on the counter on a paper towel and put the fan on above it or a fan near it or something like that and just make sure if dry and then put it back in the fridge otherwise if you have organic produce and you're not too worried about it throw to the fridge and then clean it once you take it out so it doesn't leave the fridge damp and moist so these are all easy quick tips that you can do I'll link everything up the low rate below this video one last final resort what I tend to do until the other day with my juicer just unexpectedly broke on me which I'm still trying to figure out there's a warrant in that i really hope there is is if you see produce starting to go bad just pull it on the fridge should pull out of all of our fridge and use your juicer or your blender and just create a juice or smoothie that's a good rule a good rule of thumb to have because you don't waste that produce obviously there's plenty of nutrients vitamins minerals antioxidants phytonutrients whatever it may be and all that going by throwing away really sucks so if you see it starting to go back just pull it out cut those ends off and put it in the juicer or blender and actually enjoy it and it'll also clear up your fridge and clear out something that may cause I lose to go back quicker as well because when one food starts to go bad that fungus from old whatever it is grows and then all the physical banker as well so make sure to just keep an eye on your fridge when it's going bad pull it out use it cut it off whatever compost it whatever it may be and then keep the rest of foods in your fridge so pretty simple pretty simple tips one work actually one more tip before I go if you buy food locally it's going to last a lot longer typically if you go to the grocery store you'll see food is from California Nicaragua Costa Rica Peru all over the world and that food has been grown stored shipped and with you know different things so it's already age to some degree in their duties like preservatives and the cucumbers as you say the store has a sort of wax on them to preserve them those foods are already aged some degree they do have some preservatives so it's not as healthy but if you get local produce from your farmers market or something like a door organic delivery food service that will that's a great option because that local produce is fresh as local has just been picked and so a lot of times it smells a lot better you can tell when you cut it too it's a lot fresher and crisper that food and that produce is going to last a lot longer and you get a lot more use out of it too so goalie your farmers market you stored or organic delivery food services there's different ones and those will help your put us under 12 because when you actually get the food when you purchase it it isn't as aged as the food from the grocery store so those are 56 whatever it is tips to prolong your produce from making it from pulling it staying good and not going bad I have 10 full tips on keeping your produce fresh healthy and preventing it from going bad in the article rate below this video so make sure to check that out I'll also link up they blew out the product that i have in my fridge actually have two of them i believe and yeah I'll the information trade blows video so please like favorite comment shows video below hit subscribe button to subscribe for future healthy wild and free videos where I talk about health wellness nutrition fitness spirituality fitness firing didn't say that whatever it is just all things green living sustainability you name it it's on this channel so so it's got the future videos like the Facebook page and subscribe to the email levels letter on the website and I'll see the next video make sure to have a great day bye