Cosmic Rhino

Over the past year, there’s been a fair amount of discussion on food borne bacteria, e. coli, etc. I must admit that I buy a natural veggie wash from Trader Joe’s for this reason (or when I can’t get an organic ingredient from my farmer’s market). Recently, NPR ran an interesting story on their Your Health segment about two studies: one conducted by the editors of Cook’s Illustrated (also have the fabulous America’s Test Kitchen show on PBS) and researchers at Tennessee State University.The Cook’s Illustrated people evaluated the effectiveness of a variety of produce cleaning methods. Their goal was to see what removed most of the bacteria (I would’ve loved to have them also look at pesticide removal but I’ll save this for another post).