The pesticides break down into salt and water, and anything left we can wash off.
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DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Pesticides keep the bugs off commercial fruit.
Think carefully about that though… imagine spraying toxic chemicals on your food so nothing wants to eat it.
dorkian_gray@lemmy.world 1 year ago
When the bugs develop soap and water, we’ll have to find another way to deter them. Until then, wash your fruits and veggies.
Chriszz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
With soap?
Luci@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Most pesticides are water soluble but the dirt and crap that gets on during transport is not.
dorkian_gray@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I use regular dish soap to wash my apples and other hard produce, yes. Works a treat, but a dedicated fruit/vegetable wash (“Fit” is an example brand in the US) works too. It may leave fewer deposits/less residue, no idea, I haven’t looked up any papers on it. The main reason I started was even rinsing my apples with water alone, I’d notice a chemical taste on the skins which is very similar to how the produce stands at the supermarket smell. Washing with soap gets rid of it, as long as I make sure to get the crevices at the “poles” of the apple.