to have never washed fruit?

[bubbleandsqueaks]

It goes straight into fruit bowl. Nobody has died yet (or become ill as far as I'm aware)

AIBU?

How about an anti bacterial wipe round our apples DoME-shall we try that?

I've never had d and v in the uk. Neither have my children.

Nor threadworms.

Some people are daft.

Sometimes apples have worms in don't they?

Years ago I was peeling and orange and a worm crawled out!

Oh so it was you who started the threadworm epidemic with your unwashed citrus fruits Purple.

I know someone that soaks their fruit in Milton. Very odd

Petunia no, really?

Honestly. It can't be healthy to consume bleach covered fruit!

It may be bleach covered but at least the threadworms will be bleached too.

I rinse, but only because it's there in the supermarkets for everybody to pick up and put back down again.

I know someone who used to do temp in a bagged salad factory. Needless to say, after the stories she told me, I do wash bagged salad.

petunia shops (e.g. Gregggs soak all salad veg etc in Milton, so bugs are killed.

Never wash fruit or veg.

I wash pre-packed sandwiches.
Quiche.
Scotch eggs and doughnuts.

Someone has handled them. I don't know what germs they might have.

Apples go in the washing machine.

I think that's probably sensible Tufty. No worms in your house then,

There was a programme on the telly recently about how you can ecoli (and people had) from not washing their hands after peeling vegetables. I think an apple would be ok tho - just stuff from the muddy ground is dodgy. I must admit if it looks clean - like a shiny potato from tesco's I wouldn't wash it - but I do now, having seen that programme, and wash me hands after it. Apples I'd be worried about bird poo on them. Each to their own I suppose.

I've never washed any either............hasn't seemed to have done me any harm.
My MIL spends a good morning with a bowl of soapy water and two bags of graany smiths!

Sparklingbrook, we do have worms but they are ever so clean. Sparkling infact. I shine them after washing then put them in washed sand. Mud is so dirty, I don't know how the worms can bear it.

get ecoli that is

happydotcom, your MIL sounds like my FIL. A tub of rusty nails and a scrubbing brush would keep him occupied for hours.

I wash it before eating it or packing it for dc to eat, which is to say a quick rinse under the tap with warm water, whether iti s effective or not I don't really know but I suppose any remains of snotty fingers etrc might hopefully get rinsed off.

Dh just plucks fruit from the fruit bowl or from the fridge and eats it.

Some people are daft.

Yeah, all those scientists who have studied worms and intestinal bacteria transmission cycles are definitely daft.

Probably won't kill you, normal E. coli live in our guts, but that's what those unfortunate Germans thought before they got that deadly E. coli in their green salad.

Having said that, it is probable that a few worms are actually good for you and reduce the likelihood of allergies and autoimmune diseases.

Yes but can anyone explain how a quick rinse in cold water actually removes any of these nasty bacteria etc? Or does it just make people feel better - kind of like a placebo effect?

I don't know how this thread which is actually about washing fruit became all about worms and green salads and vegetables.

Washing does remove a large portion of bacteria and worm eggs, although not all.
However, symptom development often depend on infecting dose.

They should be washed in lots of running water, not just a quick rinse.

So are you actually saying apples/grapes have worm eggs on them Lueji?