To think a lot of people dont actually wash fruit?

[TartanDr3ams]

Or are me and 90% of my colleagues gross?

Got some strawberries, blueberries and grapes on my break earlier and just plonked the punnets on my desk and told my workmates to help themselves.. a few people dive in, a quick thanks and back to work.

One colleague just made the monster of all fusses over the fact that ive not washed all said fruit and put into bowls and i quote "its absolutely barbaric that youre expecting people to eat right from the punnet they came in".

Maybe i should wash the fruit.. or maybe if you want to dig into my fruit you can wash it yourself?

I always wash fruit & veg unless I'm going to peel it.

I would thank any generous person who offered me some fruit - and then I'd wash it myself
What on earth is the problem with doing that ?
(assuming the other people are able-bodied and aged 6+)

Lol at bleach

Infant school daily fruit -do you expect someone to wash it or would you be quite happy with it straight out of the plastic bag?

I wash dirty fruit and veg, like leeks, as they often have quite a bit of soil in them.
But mostly I just pick off the little worms / mites etc from berries like raspberries - I find if you wash berries you have to eat them immediately or they break up and go soggy.

I did read about outbreaks of e.coli from bagged spinach and cucumber, so I suppose a salad spinner is essential if you buy ready cut and bagged salads.

Punnets of berries though, nah, unless you’re planning to eat every one in one go and they’re particularly dusty, or want them for a pastry (in which case seem little mites might be unwelcome addition crawling about on the creme patisserie)

I always washed fruit until I had no kitchen or running water downstairs for 4 weeks, I survived

Thought of all the grubby office hands in the punnet make me feel ill not envy

My greatest fear of washing fruit now comes from pissing off the spiders and scorpions that might be having a nap in there

Having being brought up never washing fruit (strangly always soaked veg) about three years ago I took in cake and punnets of strawberries (for the healthy eaters) to work for my birthday.

A couple of days later someone told me a group of women wouldn’t touch the fruit and spoke about me in a really unkind way because I hadn’t washed it! I was quite upset! I suppose they felt rude to take my fruit and go and wash it themselves 🤷‍♀️

Due to that reaction I now always wash. I was just washing a punnet if grapes the other day and noticed how the white almost powdery stuff doesn’t come off under the tap alone. So then I rubbed as many individual grapes with my finger hard as I could and then it came off. I was there for ages.

I wasted about 15mins of my life washing grapes and an extra ten posting about it

I always wash fruit.

Except for the grapes I have just eaten straight from the packing.

And the apple I ate yesterday. Oh, and the two pears. But I did wash the tomatoes we had at lunch. But not the ones I bought yesterday.

Same as most people then .

I have never washed fruit, and last time I checked I was still alive.

I have never wver washed fruit

We've got into a habit of washing all fruit and veg as soon as home from shops. Fill the basin with cold water - empty everything in, then out on drainer inside a colander to dry. The water goes a bit oily and a bit disgusting actually. We wash stuff that gets peeled as it's used. Lettuce gets washed too (as it gets used) and we use the spinner to dry it off. We've noticed the fruit and veg last longer (as in don't go funny/squishy/mouldy) when washed.

I only wash fruit for my kids, especially strawberries. Found and tasted some disgustingness on unwashed strawberries.

ALWAYS. Next you'll be saying you don't wash chicken!

I always wash it. My mum always says that the person who picked it could have been picking their nose as well.

I can't get that thought out of my mind when I eat fruit.

I think the pesticides used in fruit growing are more of a worry than germs left by dirty hands. My DH will thoroughly wash all fruit and peel it if he can so we are not poisoned. When he is not around a quick rinse suffices.

We’re supposed to wash chicken???

I used to wash bananas...untill I realised how utterly pointless that was...just habit

If I was going to eat the skin, I wash it.

@Izzy24 NO, absolutely not, it is dangerous and not recommended. I think helacells is having a laugh. I hope.

To kill E-Coli it’s hot water and soap. A quick splash of cold isn’t going stop a bug. So how could a run under tap wash it off a cucumber? Puts me off eating anything!

i do not wash bannanas or oranges as the skin is a natural barrier

I'm on chemo and have been advised to wash fruit and veg because of my depressed immune system.

Otherwise, nope, never. I think it has psychological connotations - it's natural! it's healthy! it's good for you! so why would you wash it...

'Barbaric' 😂

I'd always wash fruit but I am massively paranoid about germs and eating things they have been touched by other people. My own issues, stemming from my emetophobia.

I certainly wouldn't be so bloody rude though!

If you're advised to wash fruit how are they recommending that you wash them?

I do.

Especially since I was in a supermarket and two (primary school aged) kids were running around licking apples and plums. Their mother was completely unbothered.

Now I wash everything

I always wash fruit because I used to be a fruit picker and I’ve seen how unhygienic it is.

If you’re saying ‘I’ve never washed it and last time I checked I’m still alive’ - ok, I guess you could have every person in your office pass an Apple from person to person til it got to you, then eat it and still be alive, you probably wouldn’t die but it’s still unhygienic and gross.

Would you eat other unwrapped food that came from a distribution centre in a wagon?

I don’t. Never have. Rarely get so much as a cold; very much still alive.

The white layer on grapes is the bloom which iscompletely natural layer to prevent water loss.