Fruit and Vegetable Spray By the Fruit and Veggies?

August 25th, 2005

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Fruit and Vegetable Spray By the Fruit and Veggies?

Yesterday I was in my local granola, we’re-organic-salt-of-the-earth grocery store, Choices (~~no website, as far as I can tell~~). I wandered by the produce section, and noticed this oddity: a fruit and vegetable cleaning spray.

In principle, I can understand the need for such a product. Who knows what pesticides or other nasties are on our supermarket produce? I don’t, but I’d hope that my local organic store does. I was confused about the message this spray, in such close proximity to the stuff it’s meant to clean, was conveying:

We don’t know where our fruit has been.
We know where our fruit has been, and you’d better clean it.
We know where our fruit has been, and better safe than sorry.

Hopefully it’s the third answer. And I’ll just use water to clean my fruit, thanks.

Comments: 9 Responses so far

Gwen
August 25th, 2005
10:27 am

They don’t necessarily know how many people with god-knows-what on their hands have handled, sneezed on, or otherwise contaminated said produce.

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Tye
August 25th, 2005
10:40 am

I think Gwen hit the nail on the head!

Choices does have a website @
http://www.choices-market.com

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Darren
August 25th, 2005
11:20 am

Tye: How’d you find that? I gave it about 4 tries in Google, and even checked on one of their grocery bags.

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Jason
August 25th, 2005
11:50 am

According to what I’ve read, the main reason to wash vegetables is to remove naturally occurring bacteria, not pesticides.

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Paolo
August 25th, 2005
1:37 pm

I learned that frozen fruit and veggies can often be the safest and most nutritious choice, given that they are often times straight out of the fields, washed, prepared and frozen. That’s in contrast to being handled, shipped, etc. all the way until it’s fondled by tens of dozens of people each day before you buy it.

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