What Do You Use to Wash Your Produce With?

water and that's it.

I peel half of my cucumber (in little stripes). I hear that the peel has good stuff in it for you.

I peel my apples.

I sometimes rinse avocados (b/c the knives cut thru into the 'meat' of it).
But I don't rinse my watermelon. (I know. I don't make any sense).

I lead an overall healthy life.

water....im not into all these new scare tactics about sanitizing everything. YOu can get really good probiotics off of gently washed fruit.

I don't use anything special. Just water and that's it, and it's only a quick rinse

I rinse with water. I will second Leigh R.'s comments about cantelope, though. Those I scrub in a sink, often with soapy water. That rough surface can hold on to a lot of things you don't want to eat.

I also purchase food directly from the farmer's market, if possible. It's gone through fewer hands, so it's often cleaner. It doesn't have any additional substances (like wax) added to the surface. Most significantly, I know that any problems will be caught immediately.

When a single farmer feeds 200 people, if someone gets sick it is traced to the source immediately and the problem is fixed. When a single farmer dumps their produce into a mass market that feeds 200 million people, serious problems can go on for a very long time before anyone can track it back to the source.

I use tap water unless I feel there is something wrong. But if there is something wrong with it I don't buy it.

Good luck to you and yours.

I wash them in water - nothing else. For things like potatoes, or fruit that is waxed, I use a nail brush.
The idea of putting soap on food grosses me out.

I just rinse everything in water. Sometimes hubby and daughter beat me to it and eat it before it is rinsed. I've told them just to assume I have not rinsed and do it themselves to be on the safe side.

Water. If something needs "more" than that I use a tiny swipe of dish soap on my finger and rinse it cleanly off since it's non-toxic. I hate the thought of bacteria being all over my veggies or fruit, especially after the problems with cantaloup. My mom has found bugs in her bags of salad before too. So we wash pretty much everything. And of course I rinse my potatoes because, you know, they're grown in dirt. :-)

They don't need anything else besides water most of the time. Whatever else besides germs and dirt that need to be washed that people think they're washing off are usually inside the fruit itself. Even organic fruits and veggies.

I use water and a veggie brush

I use Environne brand fruit and veg wash, available at Whole Foods stores, It seems to do a good job getting off that grayish stuff that seems to be on grapes especially. I wash everything except bananas.

The recent awful outbreak of listeria due to cantaloupes (13 confirmed dead, last I heard at the end of last week; check the CDC web site for details) has led to warnings to wash melons thoroughly because when you cut through the rind, your knife carries any nasties that are on the rind right onto the inside flesh that you will eat. A salmonella outbreak in our area about 20 years ago was attributed to the same thing -- people eating unwashed melons that they cut, and the knives took the salmonella right onto the flesh.

I rarely eat melons for those reasons, but if I do, I scrub them with soap and water, and I know other folks who do the same. Any melon has been sitting on the ground in a field, fertilized with who knows what, walked over by who knows what animals or birds -- why wouldn't you wash it very thoroughly, including soap? I don't trust any "rinse" that the farmers or distributors claim they give fruits and veg before I buy them.

I use water to wash fruits and veggies that do not have rinds or do not need to be peeled.

There are, veggie/fruit washes.
In the stores, Whole Foods, natural food stores, grocery stores.

I wash my potatoes in baking soda. It really helps to get them clean. I read that on a yahoo article sometime ago.

I use Tough & Tender by Melaleuca. It works great! I never realized how much wax, etc. is on fruits and vegetables. I wash most of my produce, some just rinse and peel, and rinse again.

I wash all of it without fail, even melons w/ the thick rinds. Trader Joe's sells special produce wash; I imagine you can find it or something similar in any of the healthier grocery stores (Mother's, Henry's, Whole Foods, Sprouts, etc.)

I use Basic H from Shaklee, their all purpose household cleaner. I also bath in it. One bottle makes the equivalent of about 7000 bottles of Windex -- one drop in 16 oz of water.
I wash everything except avocados and bananas. Just a few drops of Basic H and let them soak for 15-30 minutes.

I wash all my fruit and vegetables with a solution of white vinegar and water. I do a 50/50 solution. I have it in a spray bottle on my counter and I spray everything with it.

Dawn dish soap.
Even "pre-rinsed" stuff like bagged salads still get another rinse, but no soap.

I like to use the Fit wash. It takes residue and wax off nicely. I scrub melons and potatoes well. Lettuce and baby carrots get a thorough washing with water only. I wash everything but bananas. I like the ideas from other posters of using vinegar and water or baking soda though.

Curious -- anybody know the main active ingredient in those purpose-made fruit and vegetable wash solutions? I want to know what exactly makes those solutions work. (Change in pH? Something else?)

Sometimes I just put dishsoap on my hands then rub the fruit with the soapy bubbles. Then I rinse it well, it works on slick fruit of course or potatoes that I am going to eat the skins.