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>,
none of your business > wrote:

> On Apr 18, 7:51*pm, "Jean B." > wrote:
> > Mark Thorson wrote:
> > > zxcvbob wrote:
> > >> The selection of plain frozen vegetables at the grocery stores is
> > >> getting smaller and smaller because they are being pushed out by
> > >> "microwave ready" bags of vegetables. *One of my favorite frozen vegs is
> > >> french cut green beans (they are great in stirfry) but most of the
> > >> stores have stopped selling them altogether to make room for microwave
> > >> bags of peas or broccoli or whatever (in addition to the regular bags of
> > >> peas and broccoli that haven't totally gone away yet.) *It's also
> > >> getting hard to find frozen okra that's not already breaded.
> >
> > > A related topic is bagged salad greens. *On America's Heartland
> > > yesterday, they said pre-washed, pre-cut bagged vegetables
> > > went from nothing 15 years ago to being 70% of the lettuce
> > > market today.
> >
> > > I'm old. *I remember when potatoes had dirt on them.
> >
> > Those bagged greens are a nice source of salmonella.
> >
> > --
> > Jean B.
>
> Not if you wash them first.

Washing will not get rid of Salmonella.
Only cooking will.
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