Do fruits and vegetables need to be soaked and sterilized?

Fruits and vegetables can be properly soaked, mainly not to disinfect, but to wash away the residual pesticides. Due to the development of modern agriculture, pesticides are used in a large number of crop cultivation to go, some fruits and vegetables inevitably have pesticide residues on the surface, a certain amount of time to soak, to help reduce the surface of the pesticide residues. But cleaning fruits and vegetables, it is best not to soak too long, more can not first cut fruits and vegetables into small pieces after soaking. This will make it contains a lot of water-soluble vitamins, such as vitamin C and vitamin B dissolved in water and loss, so that the fruits and vegetables of the nutrients greatly lost. Fruits and vegetables can be rinsed a few times with live water and then properly soaked for a minute or two.