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I’m trying to eat healthier & I’m on diet, I been eating some organic fruits & drinking organic soymilk, I found an organic jelly. I read salads in bags have chemicals Long time ago, I wonder if it really ok to eat? If you put salad bags in the freezer, will it be a bad idea?

The lettuce tends to get slimy as it defrosts. But, you could eat it really cold and maybe it wouldn't.

I have never heard of freezing lettuce and the like. I think as long as you rinse off lettuce and other vegetables they are safe to eat.

If you freeze lettuce it will go all limp and become all slimy and gross. I learned this by accident.
The whole organic craze is nothing but nonsense, fear mongering and pseudoscience.

And not all chemicals are bad or toxic. Water is actually a chemical.

And I also heard that the smell of freshly cut cucumbers and vegetables and even grass of your lawn is actually the "screams" of their wounded bodies as they die.

I guess really does mean eating plants and vegan food is wrong, too. We'll all just have to starve, then.

Hmmm.... that leaves us with salt alone, until someone harvesting it harms the water or rocks its extracted from...

Basically, if you freeze vegetables the water in the cells expands and bursts through the cell walls, resulting in limp, mushy grossness.

do NOT freeze leafy greens

So salads in bags are really safe to eat?

just wash them really well.

^Agree 100% with Kip. Wash well and perfectly OK.

Leafy greens can't be frozen however. Actually I don't even like the taste of any bought frozen vegetables e.g. mixed veg, carrots or peas - they have no taste compared to fresh.

I've found living lettuce to be the best for longevity in the fridge. Just tear off the amount of leaves needed per salad. If your fridge gets very cold at the bottom, keep your greens in higher areas.

Since I find iceberg lettuce too boring, I tend to like bagged spring mix as a salad base. Make sure to check the bottom of bagged salads visibly to help ensure you're not purchasing slimy salad. Once home, get the mix out of the bag to mostly dry it. Then put it back in the bag, box, or a ziploc with a folded dry paper towel. This will leave enough moisture for the lettuce. Again, if your fridge gets very cold at the bottom, keep your greens in higher areas.

I bought three bags of salads & cucumbers, next time I will get organic avocados.

^ Depends on the fruit or vegetable, there are some very old (C19th) metallic oxide sprays (which are worse for you than modern ones) that are allowed as organic on, for instance, apples in some countries: you have to know the regulations in force where you live to know on a species by species basis.

And the screaming vegetables is a hippy thing: I think brought up in jest.