Have you ever… washed your onions?

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I was today years old when I caught a glimpse of the tag on a 3 pack of onions that said ‘wash before use’. This has never ever occurred to me in my entire lifetime and honestly, what on earth! You peel ‘em, you chop ‘em! Am I the only one? 😂

Milton sterilising fluid is a form of diluted bleach, containing 2 percent sodium hypochlorite
From the NHS.

Milton fluid definitely contains bleach.

It may be good for washing vegetables but vegetables particularly ones that are peeled do not need washing in the first place.

No, lax on this more generally to be honest

@EleanorReally Milton definitely is bleach, smell it!

it is sterilising fluid
i love the smell

i used it for baby's bottles - obviously rinsed afterwards.
you wouldnt do that with bleach
although it did ruin many of our clothes

a relative abroad used it for vegetables.

Yes, which is a type of bleach.

Thought you weren’t meant to rinse it?

i think so but it is a long time, very long time, since i did this. so feel free to ignore

that post was mine. Miltons is not bleach!

You're not meant to rinse it, but I always rinsed the bottles before using them. Same as I do with cups I use it on. Our tap water is safe to drink, so no harm rinsing them. I wouldn't in some other countries though.

Again, from the NHS:
Milton sterilising fluid is a form of diluted bleach, containing 2 percent sodium hypochlorite

From Wikipedia:
Sodium hypochlorite is an alkaline inorganic chemical compound with the formula NaOCl (also written as NaClO). It is commonly known in a dilute aqueous solution as bleach

I cut the skin off the rinse, always have.

It bloody smells like it!

Miltons is a disinfectant.
Please no-one put that on your veg,
Peel veg or wash.....

It literally is bleach. It doesn't kill germs through the medium of dance.

stop being so daft.

It's a sterilising formula.

one of its uses is washing vegetables & fruit.

you're hilarious - not.

Both bleach & miltons have sodium hypochlorite in them. Bleach has a stronger concentration in it. Bleach also contains colouring & fragrance which Milton's does not.

Ha ha, yes!
Like " Someone left the cake out in the rain"

Why is it always the people who are wrong who are the loudest? You're out here saying this with your whole chest and a 2 minute research into this would literally prove you wrong but, nope. Wallowing in your own ignorance it is.

A bit like
”Yes, we have no bananas” 😁

I recently read that grapes are one of the most sprayed with chemicals, insecticides, fungicides etc, of any fruit. Made me think about how they’re commonly taken by people to patients in hospitals still in the bag they were bought in so hardly likely to have been washed.

What do you (incorrectly) believe is wrong with that post exactly??

No shouting from me🤣
tuck your own chest back in!!

Sodium hypochlorite being the active component in bleach makes Milton Fluid a bleach.

It is also why when you soak fabrics in it, it bleaches out stains. It is the reason why people buy it.

It's also why the hazard instructions warn you against ingestion. Due to the fact it is a bleach.