spinach frozen or fresh ?

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One of my neighbours up the road sunk her old bath into the front garden and filled it with compost and plants bulbs and flowers in it every year Her OH left the taps on it as well as he couldn't get them off :):) certainly eyecatching when you walk past and saves it going into landfill

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Pop_Up_Pirate wrote: »

Salad leaves are allowed to be kept under water for weeks before being processed and packed, which means they could be 2 months old before you get them.

Cut leaves would turn to mush kept underwater for weeks unless they are actually growing. So in actual fact they are being grown hydroponically then? Not sure why this is an issue.

Pop_Up_Pirate wrote: »

They are washed in nasty chemicals (most producers will not disclose these) then in chlorine stronger than in swimming pools, then rinsed.

So they are killing the bugs (these "nasty chemicals" are probably to kill things worse than e.coli) and then rinsing them to remove the chemicals? Seems pretty reasonable to me.

I take you don't drink chlorinated tap water either.

Pop_Up_Pirate wrote: »

The water does not have to be changed more than once a day in foreign packing centres which means the salad packed at the end of the day is being 'washed' in dirty water.

How dirty can it be if all the leaves have already been chemically cleaned?

Pop_Up_Pirate wrote: »

But because bacteria thrives on cut leaves, the washing doesn't always help.
12% of bagged salads contain e-coli, which has the potential to cause serious harm.
5% of food poisoning cases comes from pre-washed salads,

So give it another quick rinse... Not going to lie I'll take the e.coli risk over the tapeworms and other parasites that are much harder to shift. Actually lots of them really need special chemicals to be effectively removed because they are really good at sticking to leaves...

I don't agree with everything that companies do, and I'm sure that in some cases far more chemicals are used than need be. But honestly these things are done for a reason and just because it's your opinion doesn't mean there isn't equally good arguments to do the opposite.