Grapes - Do you wash them before eating?

toblarone45 · 27 Jul 2009 at 20:54

Klo said:
Yes, I wash all fruit and vegetables where you eat the skin.

same here

GSXRMovistar · 27 Jul 2009 at 21:14

Gothic Draconia said:
LOL, all this hatred towards minimum pay workers who are supposedly incapable of washing their hands after using the toilet or avoiding picking their nose.

So you're telling me when some under paid (talking a few pounds a week probably) guy in somewhere like Argentina is out in the hot sun picking plums to be shipped over here to Tesco and alike gets a sweaty itch down below he stops what he is doing, has a scratch then proceeds to the nearest ant-bacterial soap dispenser to wash his hands before returning to handle your fresh fruit?

V4NT0M · 27 Jul 2009 at 21:23

Farore said:
I tend to wash every fruit before NOMNOMNOMing them, simply to wash of any pesticides that may be on them. Some pesticides are analogues (Endocrine Disruptor's) of female hormones. (Grow some boobs!)

http://mikaidt.dk/ww/1999/12.html

Washing a fruit or vegetable is ineffective at removing pesticides.

Gothic Draconia · 27 Jul 2009 at 21:30

GSXRMovistar said:
So you're telling me when some under paid (talking a few pounds a week probably) guy in somewhere like Argentina is out in the hot sun picking plums to be shipped over here to Tesco and alike gets a sweaty itch down below he stops what he is doing, has a scratch then proceeds to the nearest ant-bacterial soap dispenser to wash his hands before returning to handle your fresh fruit?

Actually , i once saw a mobile hygiene unit in an olive field...

Why would somebody in Argentina find it acceptable to scratch a bum but you wouldn't?

I'm sure all you're all familiar with kebabs and takeaways. I'm sure you all touch hand rails on buses, door handles in offices, swings at the park. Just because you don't eat door handles, it doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.

Mark A · 27 Jul 2009 at 21:57

Skyfall said:
Washing a fruit or vegetable is ineffective at removing pesticides.

Exactly what i was thinking. If the rain doesn't wash them off i doubt a sprinkle of water under the tap is going to.

Soulja · 27 Jul 2009 at 21:58

Always.

spitzoid · 27 Jul 2009 at 22:02

No, because I'm not a homo or female.

AHarvey · 27 Jul 2009 at 22:23

All fruit and veg that is packaged over here is usually washed first anyway. I've worked for a potato company as well as other fresh food companies and all products are cleaned BEFORE they go into the packaging. Anyone who touches them with either be wearing gloves or will have to of washed their hands before returning to work.

I would imagine that fruit grown abroad is shipped here in mass and then packaged, but you never know.

McManicMan · 28 Jul 2009 at 09:50

never wash any fruit or veg