Unwashed for an honest leaf

Here are three main reasons why you should choose unwashed leaves.

🥬 Naturally fresher for longer

🥬 Chlorine free

🥬 Lower food waste

To help preserve their freshness and flavour, our leaves and herbs are always unwashed. Untainted by harsh chlorine, they not only taste better, they’re better for the environment and for you and your family, too.

And, as well as being unwashed, they are harvested and bagged with the minimum of handling. It all saves precious time and ensures our delicate leaves and herbs stay naturally fresher and are more flavoursome for longer.

Just as important, the process also saves precious natural resources, like water. It saves electricity too. And of course, because we grow our leaves here in Ireland when in season, this means fewer food miles, making McCormack Family Farms leaves and herbs good for the planet as well as good for you.

You see, the ordinary bag of salad you may purchase in a shop, that is marked ‘washed and ready to eat’, has gone through an extensive cleaning procedure. Washing in water, usually with a chlorine solution, then drying – all that unnecessary processing damages the delicate leaves, so the salad begins to break down as soon as the bag is opened, and much of it ends up in the rubbish.

And if you don’t believe us, encourage you to purchase a bad of our unwashed leaves and similar product that is ‘washed and ready to eat’ with the same best-before date on the packs, leave them in your fridge for 3 days and you will see the difference first hand.