Fruit and Vegetable Wash a Must for these Dirty Dozen Foods of 2015

Will an apple a day really keep the doctor away? Not quite, according to the 2015 Environmental Working Group’s Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides, wherein apples have been named the fruit with the highest number of pesticides for the fifth year in a row. Pesticides might be vital in keeping those pesky pests away from destroying and spoiling the freshness of fruits and vegetables, but these could have harmful effects when ingested. Before taking a bite out of that red, plump apple, make sure to use a special fruit and vegetable wash to ensure that you’re eating them clean.
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Quality, Organic Fruit and Vegetable Wash to Avoid Contaminated Food

How many hands have handled those fruits and vegetables from the farm they’re grown until they reached the grocery stacks? If any of those people are sick or have touched something else unsanitary, and the greens are not thoroughly washed, chances are the germs will be transmitted to you. Also, the fruits’ surfaces may already be teeming with microbes from the farm soil, which may have even come in contact with animal feces through leaching. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, listeria has caused the deadliest foodborne illnesses outbreak in almost 90 years among other harmful contaminants like salmonella, listeria, norovirus and E.coli. Also, a certain parasite called toxoplasma can be particularly dangerous to a pregnant woman and her baby. To keep your family safe, it is important for you to learn how to wash fruits and vegetables properly before cooking and consumption.
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Everyday Cleaner by iGOZEN Rated “A” by Environmental Working Group

As a further guarantee of the quality and safety of our products, we are glad to share that our patented Everyday Cleaner has received an A-rating from America’s largest and most effective non-profit environmental health research and advocacy organization, the Environmental Working Group (EWG). This organization works with a team of scientists, lawyers, policy experts, communication experts, and programmers, with the aim of promoting public and environmental health through research and education. EWG launched the online guide back in 2012 to help people find safer products that fully disclose their ingredients and that contain fewer hazardous or untested ingredients. It currently rates the safety of more than 2,000 products used in household cleaning, including iGOZEN, through its online Guide to Healthy Cleaning.
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Use Special Fruit and Vegetable Wash to Protect Against Foodborne Ills

It’s easy to say that advanced preparation techniques have made today’s foods much safer. Various salmonella and E. coli outbreaks last year, however, are clearly looking to tell a different story; one which tells that vigilance must always be observed against foodborne diseases. Roughly 50 million Americans get sick from eating contaminated food annually, and believe it when you’re told that you wouldn’t want to join them. Fortunately, there is a way to adequately protect against various foodborne diseases. Here are a few handy tips you should heed the next time you hit the kitchen:
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Water Plus a Fruit and Vegetable Wash Give Food a Clean Bill of Health

"Washing with water and an environment-friendly fruit and vegetable wash also does away with residue from unsafe pesticides. Rachel Nall writes about how to safely prepare produce, in her article for LiveStrong.com. Prone to Contamination Many ground-growing vegetables such as potatoes are at risk of contamination, from the environment in which they are grown to the areas where they are stored."
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Clean your Produce Properly with the Help of Fruit and Vegetable Wash

Another way of cleaning is by using quality fruit and vegetable wash, which is made of special mixtures for just that purpose. It helps remove wax and neutralize pesticides, germs, and toxins. These are usually placed in a spray bottle, making it easy to just spray it on the produce. It is very convenient and guaranteed to be safe for the fruit or vegetable, as well as for a person’s health. To clean with a wash, simply spray it on the fruit or vegetable and rinse afterwards. Cleaning your produce is essential to make sure that there are no bacteria or germs present when it is peeled, sliced, and consumed. Remember that every kind of vegetable and fruit must be cleaned and not just the edible-skinned ones. If you want to learn how to wash fruits and vegetables properly with the safest and most thorough method there is, then companies like iGOZEN have exactly the kind of produce cleaner you need.
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Organic Fruit and Vegetable Wash Helps Make Juicing or Detoxes Cleaner

Aside from making sure you have complete, balanced nutrition, you have to ensure the cleanliness of the raw produce used in your juicing diet or detoxes. One way to do that is to use an organic fruit and vegetable wash. Instead of simply rinsing your produce with water, you can use a cleansing solution specified for produce to thoroughly rid them of dirt, harmful chemicals, microbes, and other contaminants.
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How to Wash Fruits and Vegetables to Get Rid of Nasty Fruit Flies

If you want to rid your produce of fruit fly eggs, you might be wondering how to wash fruits and vegetables effectively. The conventional way of doing it is simply giving it a rinse on the sink, but will water from the tap really be enough? The FDA recommends washing all produce with clean running water before preparing (e.g. slicing, peeling, or cooking) and eating them. Firm fruits and vegetables like cucumbers or watermelons can also be scrubbed with a produce brush. Pre-washed items labelled ready-to-eat can be safe to eat immediately as long as there’s no cross-contamination.
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Food Wash: Use Organic Cleaners to Protect Your Family and Yourself

The presence of pesticide in your food can cause a lot of health problems, especially for children. For example, many pesticides have been linked to cancer. Several types of cancer, such as brain and prostate cancer, have been traced to pesticide exposure. An example of this chemical is methyl bromide, which is found to cause prostate cancer. Moreover, infertility has also been traced to pesticide exposure. For example, chlorpyrifos, a popular pesticide for strawberries and peaches, has been linked to lower testosterone levels. With these effects, it should become a habit for you to do a thorough fruit and vegetable wash, whether these products have been labeled organic or not.
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All-Organic Fruit and Vegetable Wash Makes Apples Truly Good for You

Apples aren’t the only fruits laced with chemicals, though. According to the Environmental Working Group (EWG), other popular fruits like strawberries, peaches, grapes, blueberries, and nectarines are pumped full of pesticides, too. Of course, fruits are key components of a healthy diet, so simply not eating them is certainly out of the question. Peeling fruits prior to consumption can be an alternative, but some, like apples, tend to be more nutritious when eaten with the skin. You can also wash produce, which many people do, but doing so might not remove all of the pesticides present on the rind. Given the dangers pesticides pose to humans, you’re probably wondering how to wash fruits and vegetables properly so that no harmful substances make it to your plate.
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The Dirt is Clean, The Food is Organic: Why Wash?

Organic food is healthy, and little organic soil is good for us. So, why do we need to wash our produce if the food is pesticide-free, toxin-free, and all-natural? The reality is that even if you have been very careful and diligent to purchase only organic; the outside of the product may not match the purity of the inside. Your produce may still not be as toxic-free or chemical-free as you are hoping.
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Why Organic All Purpose Cleaners are Much More Important than you Think

Many consumers feel that household cleaners containing harsh chemicals are the most effective option. A Purdue University study tested the effectiveness of various natural cleaners such as lemon juice, baking soda and vinegar on both bathroom and kitchen dirt. The results showed natural cleaners as effective as chemical cleaners in disinfecting and reducing bacteria. Doctors are quick to point out that antibacterial products are actually hazardous to your health. Organic cleaning products allow your body to build defenses against bacteria resulting in a healthier immune system. Multipurpose Baking soda can polish plastics and metals and be used as a deodorizer and fabric softener. Vinegar can be used as an organic all purpose cleaner in addition to deodorizing and removing mildew. Lemon juice can be used as a stain remover, glass cleaner and deodorizer. Cornstarch is another natural cleaner of windows and carpets, and makes a great furniture polish. Isopropyl alcohol is an inexpen
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Deep Breathing and Fresh Air – A Powerful Combination

Many of us could use a good lesson in breathing. Yes, Breathing! Our autonomic system pumps our blood, has us breath without thought, and moves food through our digestive track. But many of us do not breathe correctly. Deep breathing moves the air deep into your lungs and revitalizes your body. Add fresh air to your deep breathing and you create a self-curing cocktail!
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Hobbies for Healing: Reinventing Yourself After Tragedy

Sometimes circumstances beyond our control change how we are able function. Everyday activities can become seemingly impossible challenges. Some diseases, ailments, and tragedies, such as a stroke, can happen without any rhyme or reason. All at once it is as if you need to reinvent yourself in ways you never dreamed of before. As difficult as it may seem, this may be the most important time to incorporate a hobby into your life. Hobbies can be more than just something to de-stress: it can be a lifeline to getting your life back into gear.
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iGOZEN Offers Safe, Organic, and Natural Fruit and Vegetable Wash

"iGOZEN is offering a fruit and vegetable wash made of 100% natural, organic ingredients that effectively kill food-borne diseases and remove pesticides and different kinds of impurities found on fruits and vegetables. Through the product, the company aims to help families consume items that are cleaner and free from environmental toxins, leaving them worry-free. Fruits and vegetables sold in the market still contain harmful toxins like pesticide residue, even after they have been thoroughly washed with water. When ingested regularly, these toxins may result in harmful long-term effects in the form of various kinds of illnesses. Some of the more serious long-term effects include chronic fatigue syndrome, asthma, schizophrenia, cancer, Parkinson’s Disease, and infertility, among others."
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Why iGOZEN is the Organic Cleaning Solution that’s Better for the Environment By Tara Pelton

When I first heard about iGOZEN All Purpose Everyday Cleaner I was struggling to find something I liked to clean my kitchen. I had pretty much given up trying to get the kitchen clean and sanitized with an organic cleaner. Don’t get me wrong - I applaud organic cleaners.  (Finally - a solution that is not dangerous to your health.) But, sadly, they are oily. They are sold in plastic bottles as a concentrate of oils (coconut oil, citrus oil, lavender oil, etc.) or they are oils diluted with water in spray bottles. So, I tried baking soda…. But it, too, left a film and was difficult to manage in a spray bottle, or in a bowl or whatever way you are supposed to use it. So then I tried Vinegar. It apparently removes germs (I’m still not sure about that), but at least it worked in a spray bottle. Problem is the whole experience of cleaning with vinegar isn’t very fun, well actually to me, its kind of gross – and even worse if you are using it in a previously-used plastic bottle.  But I hung in there and kept trying.

Then I really became discouraged because I realized that no matter what I tried, the fact remains there were way too many plastic bottles in my kitchen: bottles for window cleaner, dish soap, bottles for tile grout and refrigerator shiners, sinks, stoves…rah!  All that  - but I still could not clean my blender or food processor successfully. This is scary: plastic bottles take hundreds of years to biodegrade and 70% are never actually recycled. Its even more depressing when you know 1500 plastic bottles are used everysecond in the USA. Every second – that’s crazy! And this figure is just an estimate for plastic drinking bottles and doesn’t even include cleaning product bottles.

“Where do all the plastic bottles go?” is a song I could write today, from my heart.

So I wished, (Yes, I truly am one of these people who wishes on stars), “Please, please help us solve the plastic bottles problem.”  It was certainly a problem so big and too overwhelming for me alone. Every time I purchased plastic cleaning bottles I felt the tug of guilt– “What happens next?” I asked myself. “What happens to this bottle when I throw it away; when it is covered in oily film and I can’t really re-use it anymore? WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THE PLASTIC GALLON BLEACH BOTTLES?  It was like a nightmare or something.

So all of this is what was on my mind when I first heard about iGOZEN and I flipped my lid. “Whoa – you are kidding me? A cleaner so small you can pack it in a powder packet that weighs less than an ounce? Give it to me now.”  So I tried it. And I love it. I use it for everything in the kitchen: the sink, the stove, the blender, the refrigerator, the countertops and – yay! – the food processor! Actually I even use it on super-messy, food-caked pots and pans.  It disintegrates the caked on food and sanitizes everything on contact. Its more effective than the toxic cleaners, in my experience.  Rock on!  And best of all – you can mix iGOZEN in any 16 oz bottle of water and you’re ready to roll.

So that is what began the story of iGOZEN’s simple packaging. You receive tiny powder packets and mix them with 16 oz of water. Viola – the perfect sanitizing solution.   Next, hear the story of how iGOZEN Reusable Bottles were created.

I made a wish and it is coming true. I’m inspired. We can make this change. We really can.

Hope you’ll try iGOZEN!

Xoxoxo
 

Tara at iGOZEN

Mushroom Bean Casserole: Good for You and Delicious for the Whole Family By Tara Pelton

Before I give you the recipe for the best green bean casserole of all time, I will take a moment to tell you why you should eat green bean casserole and why you want to make sure you get your kids to try it. Because it’s delicious! Start them off young with green bean casserole and you will be glad you did, because your boys will like to eat their green beans.

Green beans are very healthy to eat, especially for growing kids. Green beans containVitamin K, which aids in healing cuts, scrapes and bloody noses.  If your kid gets a bloody nose, feed him lost of green beans (and strawberries). The vitamin K will provide essential nutrients to heal.

Green beans also contain high amounts of Vitamin C which aids in healing the cuts and scrapes a child gets in playing every day – lots of green beans help to quickly repair tissue and grow strong.

You will be happy to know that green beans are vital to the health of mothers and any young woman, too. They are high in Manganese, which is a wonderful nutrient that aids in reducing pain of periods (PMS). On your day off, you will enjoy green bean casserole….Since its so delicious I guarantee you will want to eat the entire casserole by yourself.

The mushrooms in the casserole also provide Manganese as well as providing you with vital trace nutrients, like copper. This is why it is excellent for a woman to eat this particular casserole to provide your body with vital nutrients from both the green beans and the mushrooms together to help balance the stress on the body during menstruation.

So there you go – that’s why you want to learn how to make Delicious Green Bean & Mushroom Casserole….Make enough for the whole family and especially serve it to small children so they will learn to enjoy it.

Tara’s “I Love Yellow Peppers and Raisins” - iGOZEN Salad Recipe By Tara Pelton

Looking for a delicious crunchy salad with the right balance of tangy sweet and salty? Try this delicious and beautiful recipe. Be sure to buy fresh and wash your fruits and veggies with iGOZEN Simply Clean. 

This recipe has 250 calories for a huge delicious helping, 350 with cheese added and that includes the dressing.

Ingredients

Yellow-orange peppers

Mushrooms

Yellow Raisins

Mushrooms

Green beans

White onion (optional)

Parmesan (or other) shredded cheese (optional)

Lettuce (romaine)

Chop into bite size pieces, or in the case of lettuce gently tear the lettuce into bite-size pieces.  Decorate your salad with delicious crunchy beans, sweet yellow raisins and orange peppers.

Add salad crunchies if you have them (see my other recipe on how to make salad crunchies)

Dressing

1 tablespoon honey (raw, unfiltered is the best for you and only 60 calories per heaping tablespoon)

1-2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar

2 generous heaping tablespoons Greek style yogurt 

salt & pepper (use whole salt, kosher, sea salt or Himalayan salt)

1 teaspoon mustard

Yes, I really said yogurt. You can use oil if you want but yogurt is plenty delicious and saves calories.  Just try it….

Remember to encourage your kids to help you prepare foods.  Use iGOZEN to make sure all foods are sanitary and free from dangerous germs or pesticides or bacteria, and send us your favorite recipes if you'd like to share them.

Environmental Diseases: Dedicate Yourself to a Toxin-Free Lifestyle By Tara Pelton

“My friend’s doctor is certain her leukemia is caused by the herbicides being sprayed on farms near her home.”

Here at iGOZEN, we are touched by these kinds of stories every day. Perhaps you too, have known someone with an illness due to environmental toxins.

Everyone deserves to live stress-free, without fear of disease or contamination from toxic gases, chemicals and food. And that is why we work so hard to help people learn how to remove pesticides from our foods and keep our homes toxin-free with iGOZEN.

Dedicate yourself to a toxin-free lifestyle; for the planet, for your friends and everyone you love.

Environmental pollution is a very complex subject. How can we be free from pesticides, herbicides and toxins? What can do to make a difference in this overwhelming problem?

The most important thing we can do is to educate.  When people understand, they make the right choices. Set a good example, because everyone learns by example. Eat fresh, pesticide-free foods and clean your homes with toxin-free solutions. Reduce waste, reuse and recycle. Talk to others and urge them to do the same.

Protect your health by protecting the environment.

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Rhonda from Michigan: Cat Safe from Toxic Chemicals By Customer Stories

Protect Pets

Many of us here at iGOZEN have pets, and of course they are part of the family. From parakeets to dogs and cats, the last thing we want to do is accidentally harm our pets just because we were cleaning our house! And it looks like our customers feel the same way. Here's some feedback from Rhonda in Michigan, who's been using iGOZEN Everyday Cleaner:

I love this stuff I can use it around my cats and it [doesn't] bother them. I have a cat that loves everything, especially when I am doing it. He likes to taste test a lot of stuff and [iGOZEN] is so safe . Thanks for a wonderful and safe product.

Rhonda Greig
Michigan
 

Did you know that nearly 9% of calls to the Pet Poison Helpline in 2010 were made by cat owners? The most obvious poisons top the list, with the first three being human/vet drugs, poisonous plants and insecticides. But number four on the list is Household Cleaners. In other words, cats and bleach aren't a good mix. Lysol and cats aren't a good combination either!

So the potential for poisoning a pet is actually rather high, especially if your house is on the clean side. So we are happy that iGOZEN Everyday Cleaner replaces most (if not all) common and toxic cleaners in households, creating a safer environment for both humans and pets.

What good is your clean house if it's slowly (or quickly) poisoning your family (pets included, of course)? Here's an easy way to tell if a cleaning product has harmful chemicals. If the names of the ingredients are hard to pronounce, they are probably toxic. Look them up online to confirm. Then switch them out with something safe. iGOZEN is made from sea shell calcium and sea salt. Pretty easy to pronounce those two ingredients!

iGOZEN is easy to use and our customers love it. Just visit our Facebook Page and listen to the conversation. The word "love" is constantly mentioned.

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