Do you really need to wash fruit? What's going to happen if you don't? Are you gonna die? No. Are you gonna get sick? No.
Then... what's the point?
I think it's another one of that germophobia things, like putting toilet paper on toilet seat because omg someone else sat there (with their thighs!!!).
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I’ve never washed a single piece of fruit and I’m still here. My immune system must be made of titanium by now.
It's not about bacteria it's about the pesticides they get hosed down with. Either organic ones or whatever Monsanto is selling this year
Water doesn't wash away pesticides
This. It's because of the dirt
Enjoy damage to your endocrine system from decades of pesticides.
Some people even say washing isn't enough, you actually have to scrub them with a brush.
What kind of a madman is gonna brush a fricking apple?
A relative of mine staid in Belgium for a year and said that a guy there even peeled his grapes.
Well the spray they put on grapes does taste pretty nasty.
But think of the busywork just to eat one lousy grape. I'll rather have a somewhat nasty tasting one.
Yea. I just don't bother with them because of it.
Whatever they spray on organic grapes isnt bad. But they're both expensive and spuratically available.
i work on a apple farm, they have planes that spray the frick out of the apples with pesticides and what not, if u fill a sink and fill it with 6 - 8 apples for about an hour, the water will change color, however, non pesticide apples, the water will not change color, go figure
>Do you really need to wash fruit?
yep.
>What's going to happen if you don't?
higher probability of diarrhea from eating too much bacteria trapped in the wax coating from sitting on the shelf for longer than 2 hours at the store.
I rinse fruit but not very well. For some reason I have no problem eating an unpeeled dirty ass carrot that I barely rinsed off, too.
I rinse every vegetable and fruit I eat, not because I believe it does anything but because I believe in the nocebo effect of not doing it.
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I always at least wash them for a minute in hot water because without fail some Black person has gripped the fricking apple hard enough to leave a fingernail gash and God only knows what kind of bacteria live on those fingernails
Have fun ingesting Mexican and Honduran feces.
The only fruits or vegetables that I have washed in the last 10 years have been potatoes or other root vegetables and only because they are covered in literal dirt.
What's the matter libtards? You queers don't like the taste of Monsanto RoundUp?
Even if you didn't HAVE TO, why wouldn't you?
Don't like getting my hands wet.
If you didn't have to why WOULD you? It would be a waste of time then.
there was recently hepatitis on some strawberries in my state
Enjoy your dirt
I only wash it if I'm using the zest for some recipe.
I wash things like fresh herbs, mushrooms, and root vegetables, because they typically are covered in dirt, and if my hands turn brown just chopping something up I sure as frick don't want to eat it. The thing I've never understood is people freaking out over seeing a hair in their food. I mean, you'd get a few pubes stuck in your teeth pretty fast after meeting a cute grill, but for some reason you just expect her to be more hygienic than random strangers? Either people's hair is gross or it isn't. Make up your mind.
pesticides and bacteria
A lot of pesticides nowadays are soluble in water. Washing fruit = get rid of pesticides.
That's why you wash fruit. Plain water removes the pesticides.
Even if it’s the cleanest production line known to man, at some point it gets put out on the shelf and every grubby kid and arse scratching shart walking past gives it a squeeze. Sure, it’s not going to kill you, but neither is rinsing it to avoid sampling a wienertail of unknown pleb secretions.
One time my ex was over and I took a piss
>didn't feel like washing my hands
>just rinse a little water on my fingertips
>get back to living room
>she tells me I didn't wash properly
>how tf do you know
>cause your whole hands aren't wet
I broke up with her. Not joking
thats dumb, why did she assume you didn't dry your hands?
Because half of my hands were still half wet from the towel not being completely dry
Piss is cleaner than unwashed fruit.
I wash everything because a black person or a homosexual might have touched it
yeah if I lived in an area with a lot of unsavories I would be more inclined to wash produce
You madman
1: it's not a bad idea to handle and check fruit before eating to make sure it hasn't gone rotten.
2:pesticides
3: you think they give Juan a bathroom break when he goes out in the fields to hand pick this shit?
And people like you are why I give fruit a quick rinse.