MIRA Safety DTX-1

Pesticides and chemicals on our fresh food is not a new thing and cleaning your food before cooking and consumption has always been a sensible thing to do. But most of us rely on a simple wash under the tap and no matter how thorough you are, you may still end up with undesirable elements on your food. This device from MIRA aims to provide a cleaning solution without any chemicals being involved at all.

To use it you simply place your produce in to a container along with water and then rest the fins in the centre. Make sure you don’t fill the water so high that it goes above the fins, the top of the unit is not waterproof! You then input in to the touchscreen the kind of cleaning you want to do. There are several options including a detoxification for raw food, anti-parasitic and thermal treatment. There is even an option for detox of household items such as keys for example. The device then uses ultra-sonic pulses to remove physical contaminants as well as oxidising any pesticides on the food so that they become inert and safely removed once you remove the products from the water.

Now, you may be forgiven for thinking this is all hyperbole and there’s nothing wrong with washing under a tap (it’s never done you any harm so far, worked for your parents and their parents etc…) but when you consider how farming has evolved in the space of a few generations, it’s not hard to see that things ain’t the same as they once were! Certified lab tests have seen a consistent level of effectiveness (ranging from 96.3% mold removal success to 99.9% hard metals removal) that I challenge anyone to achieve using water running from a tap. This item may not be essential in the UK due to stringent checks on food and water quality but it’s certainly going to give your food one of the safest and most comprehensive chemical-free washes out there. RRP £326

DTX-1 Ultrasonic Fruits and Vegetable Cleaner