Nothing tastes better than a fresh bounty of lettuce from your own garden or the farmer’s market – but not-so-fast when it comes to tossing it all into a bowl to eat. Lettuce, like other produce, ...

No doubt you’ve heard that you should wash your fresh fruit and vegetables before eating them. After all, they can be full of residue like dirt, pesticides and even bugs. If you want to eliminate as ...

Let’s face it — fruits and vegetables are dirty. Between harvesting, handling, and packaging, they build up a lot of crud and critters (yikes!) In fact, the Environmental Working Group releases an ...

Bagged salads, romaine lettuce, and spinach have been frequent stars of food recall alerts in recent years. Unfortunately, fields of leafy greens are easy targets for E. coli contaminations due to ...