AIBU for washing fruit with washing up liquid?

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So to wash fruit I put washing up liquid on it, swish it around a bit in water, and then carefully rinse it all off.

This seemed perfectly normal until today when a bunch of people stared at me in horror saying WTAF are you DOING!?!?

Apparently it's irredeemably weird and my fruit must taste of washing up liquid (it doesn't, that would be rank, I rinse it completely).

I also only do it to fruit with a skin, not stuff like strawberries and raspberries. They just get water.

So? Am I a total fruit-washing freak?

I don't wash fruit ....

I use Ecover washing up liquid.

I don't do it, but I can see the logic.

Non-washers, if say a cup, had been sprayed with liquid manure, or substances you know to be poisonous, would you give it a quick rinse and think it was OK to use? Would you happily use cutlery that you know has been handled and sneezed on by dozens of people, without washing it?

Seems odd that not washing you hands after the loo is considered so grim, but washing food (touched by those people) is considered odd.

I've never washed fruit or salad.

I just assume apples , pears etc are washed in the packaging process

Me neither Lass. Never. Not once. I don't even take the compost off mushrooms.
We are so rarely ill that I can only remember one instance in ten years and that was Noro caught from my Dad.

Weird OP. Too too weird.

If you only wash stuff that has a skin you don't eat then why bother washing it?

I tried to get better at washing fruit and veg when I was pregnant. I usually only remember if it has visible dirt on it...

I used to wash every fruit in water. Then I read on here that it does not remove any chemicals / pesticides. So I stopped.

Its so....liberating.

Like swimming naked.

I'm another one who has never washed fruit or salad.

Yuck

I never wash fruit or salad either.

I mean, it must leave an after taste, surely?

why would water not remove chemicals on the skin? sometimes you can see the residue wash off. i usually dry fruit like apples with a tea towel as well. no washing up liquid though!

There are very strict rules about pesticide use in the EU. You can't spray within a certain number of days before harvest to avoid high residues being left on the skin. There is also a tight list of what is allowed to be used and rules about residue levels in products.
I rinse my fruit to remove dust but could see the point in washing to get off the wax

My friend washes the fruit in that anti bac hand sanitizer, then rinses it off in water.
If I'm giving fruit to a child I wash it, if it's for me I give it a wipe on whatever I'm wearing

I never wash fruit or veg (except leeks, cabbage etc if there is visible dirt). Am never ill

Isn't it the build up that's dangerous with pesticides though? So you may well not be ill from eating the very small doses you get on one serving but over a period of years you will have consumed lots.

I grow my own completely pesticide free fruit, it gets a rinse if i am near a sink and is being used for jams etc, but straight from the plant - no washing at all. I am aghast that people eat fruit that the pesticides can be tasted on, surely you really need to change your supplier?

You do realise that you are trying to wash the chemicals off with...eh...chemicals,don't you?!

I never wash fruit or veg. It just wouldn't occur to me to do so.....but if it did I imagine something more than just cold water would be necessary I guess??

I do that thing where you nonchalantly polish an apple on your jumper just before eating it. Is anyone telling me that is simply not ENOUGH?

i tend to peel all my fruit and veg so i don't bother with washing most of the time. except salady stuff that can't be peeled and isn't cooked. even then I just rinse to get rid of mud and dead bugs.

If you're using anything except Method or Ecover then YABVV silly. Fairy liquid contains formaldehyde last time I checked. So you're sort of embalming yourself and your fruit every time you eat it. Yummy. Mind you, you're doing the same to your plates so what's the difference?

Mmm! Even the Gloria Hunniford food programme found NO PESTCIDE RESIDUE AT ALL on fruit and veg from supermarkets - except for a minute amount of raspberries, far below the guideline levels.

So the fear of pesticide seems to be a bit OTT.

Even if there was some, as Glitoris says, you'd just be swapping one set of chemicals for another.

I eat fruit off the tree/bush and from hedgerows without washing anything - I may rub off anything that is obvious - I have never had a bad stomach from it.

I do have to wonder if it is such clean freakery that causes the use of such chemicals in the growing of our food in the first place. Why can't we buy fruit that looks like real fruit any more?

I am heartily sick of the glossy perfection of the Disney apples in every shop!

There is no point washing fruit with water don't u think pesticides are water resistant or rain would just wash it off !! I also wash fruit in washing up liquid and then give it a good rinse, if you wash ur dishes and cutlery in it you should feel just as safe washing fruit in it x