Washing Veggies and Fruit.

Updated on April 21, 2011
R.K. asks from Riverhead, NY
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What does everyone use to wash their fruit and vegetables? I buy organic when I can but I prefer to buy local and organic. Which is very hard. So sometimes I have conventional stuff. What do you wash it with. Do you guys use a special soap. I usually soak and dump the water then do it again but the apples especially just seem greasy.

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S.J.

answers from St. Louis on

Add a little vinegar and lemon juice to water and use that solution to clean produce with skin. They also sell veggie brushes to scrub the produce.

A little trick I learned - smell the produce - if you cannot smell very distinctly what the item is (ie if it doesn't smell like an apple) it means there are too many chemicals on that particular fruit. Yep, I am that weird lady smelling all of the produce in Shnucks.

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S.K.

answers from New York on

I soak or spray my fruits and veggies in a 10% vinegar/water solution for about five to ten minutes. Then give them a good scrub and rinse with water. To make it easy I keep a spray bottle on the counter with the vinegar/water solution already mixed. I've done this ever since I had a bad reaction to an apple that was only washed off with water several years ago. Haven't had a problem since.

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M.J.

answers from Sacramento on

Trader Joe's sells a food and veggie wash that I use.

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M.H.

answers from Atlanta on

Tough and Tender is a wonderful veggie wash...it also does a lot of other things as well.

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M.H.

answers from New York on

I think I heard of baking soda. I think, not sure.

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S.F.

answers from Utica on

Baking soda. I keep a box in the cupboard beside the sink just for this very purpose. I just wet the fruit or veggie first and then sprinkle it with baking soda and scrub away. Baking soda doesnt disinfect but it scrubs away any impurities and dirt, wax or grime.
Good Luck

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B.C.

answers from Joplin on

I always just use water...but I know there is a spray you can buy. Anything with a peel I usually just peel except maybe plums...I eat the peel on plums. I can't stand the skin on apples or the fuzzy texture of a peach so I always peel them.

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L.H.

answers from New York on

The companies wax the fruit to make it more attractive and to preserve it for shipping to your local market. Apples, peppers, and even zucchini is waxed. I hate it. Years ago the peppers weren't waxed and would fry up nicely, now they don't fry up as nice. The best thing to do is grow it yourself, which is why I can't wait until summer. If you go to a local apple orchard and pick the apples yourself or buy them from the farmer, you will find that there is no heavy layer of wax. The "natural wax" on apples is very thin, so you don't notice it. I peel all my fruits unless they come directly from the local farmer, because it makes the skin tough and I can't help but wonder if there isn't some pesticide/chemical residue underneath the wax coating. Here's some websites to check it out:
http://smallstepstohealth.com/2008/09/wax-on-wax-off-wax-...
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=george&dbid=175

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S.S.

answers from Binghamton on

The apples are not greasy, they are waxy. Apples and many other fruits and veggies have a natural wax layer to protect them from bugs etc. It is perfectly natural and not something placed on the apples.

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J.B.

answers from Binghamton on

See if you can find unwaxed apples. Buying directly from an orchard is one option. They usually don't wax their apples.

Who knows what is under that wax!

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J.J.

answers from San Francisco on

Just vinegar and water works fine. Lemon juice smells a lot better but has to be kept in the fridge. I wouldn't buy anything...

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P.S.

answers from Houston on

Lemon juice! I buy bottles of it and put it in a small spray bottle.

I spray my food w/juice and rinse w/water. I also have a fruit and veggie brush I keep near the sink and scrub what I can (apples, potatoes, etc).

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C.J.

answers from Milwaukee on

Isn't that a wax they put on apples?

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