Step by step: how to sanitize your shopping?

The sanitization of products we bring from outside our home has always been of great importance for the health of those who consume them. Knowing this, we have gathered the best cleaning tips for you to protect yourself from possible diseases, leaving your products clean and safe for handling and consumption.

The cleaning of products we bring from outside our home has always been of great importance for the health of those who consume them. But, in times of coronavirus, the concern with the cleaning of food and packaging in general has become an even more relevant subject, since the new virus can survive for considerable time in some materials. 

Knowing this, we have gathered the best cleaning tips for you to protect yourself from possible diseases, leaving your products clean and safe for handling and consumption. Do you want to know what we have separated for you to stay calm in relation to their cleaning? Continue reading and put our tips into practice!

The hygiene starts from the door out

To prevent correctly, it is important to remember that hygiene begins even before taking the products purchased into the home. During the pandemic, some of the essential care ends up being even more rigorous. Check the main ones:

Care when going shopping

1. Use protective mask and change it every 2h;
2. Do not bring your hands to your face under any circumstances;
3. Keep at a distance of 1.5 m from other people;
4. Disinfect surfaces with alcohol gel, such as the supermarket cart bar;
5. Choose a less busy schedule for shopping;

Leave the cell phone at home, if possible. It will be one more item to sanitize!

1. Care when receiving delivery
2. Use protective mask to find the deliverer;
3. Do not bring your hands to your face under any circumstances;
4. Respect the distance of 1.5 m from other people on the street;
5. Remove the packages from the bags and dispose of them in a safe place;
6. Wash your hands well with soap and water, for 20 seconds.

Tip: There is no scientific proof of contagion of the new coronavirus by ready foods. It is possible that it is contaminated if who cooked it is sick, but there is still no evidence of foodborne infection.

Step by step to sanitize your shopping

By taking the precautions we mentioned above, you will already be guaranteed half your protection. Now is the time to learn how to finish the service and leave your shopping free of any dirt or contamination that may have come on the way to you! Let's go?

To specifically protect yourself from the new coronavirus, it is important to know your survival on common surfaces that we find in supermarkets and at home. According to a research published in G1, the virus survives for 3 days in stainless steel and plastic; 1 day in cardboard and 4 hours in copper. 

In other words, all packaging and products that contain these materials must be sterilized when entering the house, such as pizza boxes and supermarket bags, for example.

1. wash your hands

Before placing the hand in the dough, it is essential to sanitize them correctly: wash with water and soap or pass alcohol in gel 70, massaging for at least 20 seconds. Don't forget to wash your hands whenever you touch products that have not been sanitized, ok? 🙂

2. Do not put the purchases in the pantry

When bringing unsanitized products to your kitchen, leave them separate from other items and keep them as they are clean. This way you avoid contaminating other products that you already have at home as well as the surfaces, such as tables and countertops.

3. Clean packages with water and soap or alcohol 70

Take the items out of the bags and divide them by packaging, because each one requires a different kind of cleaning. More resistant packaging, such as glass and plastic, can be sanitized with water and soap or detergent. Use a sponge to facilitate the process and rinse normally with a dishcloth 😉

Cardboard packaging, for example, cannot come into contact with water, so they must be cleaned with alcohol. It is simple: spray the alcohol 70 on a dry cloth and pass through the entire package.

4. Leave fruits and vegetables in immersion

The cleaning of fruits, vegetables and greens is different from the products we mention, since they are organic foods that do not come in industrialized packaging. To kill germs and remove the impurities that can come with these foods, it is necessary to let them soak for 15 to 20 minutes in the following mixture: for each liter of running water, put a tablespoon of sanitary water.

You can put them all together in this mixture. Then you just wait to act, dry them and keep them in the refrigerator. 🙂

5. Clean the surfaces

Now that you've finished cleaning and storing your groceries, you need to remember the surfaces on which they stayed. With the help of a sponge, wash with soap and water or pass 70 alcohol in the sink, in the benches and also in the ecobags, if it is the case. Ah, don't forget to wash your hands again when you finish the whole process! 

What did you think of our tips? I hope you can sanitize all your purchases with our step by step to stay carefree with dirt, viruses and germs. In case you still need the help of someone who knows how to clean, don't worry! Just ask UmHelp and we'll send a diarist to you 😀