To wash my grapes and think it’s weird when people don’t??

[AliceRR]

Just that. I wash grapes quite thoroughly before I eat them. I take them off the stalks and rub a handful in my hands under the tap to clean them before I eat them.

I find just rinsing them under the tap to be insufficient.

And I know some people would just eat them without washing them at all, which I find odd and a bit gross.

I am pregnant now so extra careful but I have always tried to wash certain fruits and veg thoroughly anyway

Yes I wash all fruit and veg...in water with a splash of vinegar is best.

@zzzzz General dirt and the residue that is on them that PP has said is yeast
@Hairyhat 😃😘
@peachsquish 😱

@HairyHat But do you wash it though? 😂

I wash all fruit and vegetables. I'm not convinced it makes a lot of difference to the health aspect of it but it just feels unpleasant to leave them unwashed after they've been handled by numerous please and the unpacked ones have been sitting in the shop with all the dirt and dust around them.

But it's not always about dirt as far as I'm concerned.

At the end of dinner one evening my now exh put a bowl of grapes on the table that he's brought in from the kitchen. He'd bought the grapes himself earlier and when asked insisted he'd washed them.

He hadn't washed them though, as became clear when, after eating about half a dozen of them, I discovered an enormous snail nestled in the centre of the bunch. Huge thing it was with a light and dark brown striped shell.

It was years before I could eat grapes again and I always make sure I wash them myself.

*numerous people, not numerous please.

@pigsDOfly 🤮

Life's too short to peel wash a grape.

Washing doesn’t remove pesticides.

Nearly all fruit, veg, salads and herbs are washed in chlorine prior to packing to reduce bacterial / viral burden.

I have got to the ripe old age of 52 having never washed raw fruit or veg (exceptions: salad veg like lettuce etc that are muddy). I've never been ill as a result, and last time I checked, was in good health.

Sometimes wash them down with cheese n biscuits ..🍷

Vinegary tasting grapes? Bizarre!

Have a friend who grows grapes for wine. they are sprayed a lot. All the time. Even the organic ones have to be sprayed a bit.
I definitely wash all fruit too.
Washing cannot remove everything but it goes some way to make things edible. Plus some kids get reactions mistaken for allergies at eating certain sprays. One kid I know had a reaction to a peach due to this.

Washing fruit/veg is one of those things I know I ought to do but never get round to doing.

Unless you put them in the dishwasher you are not washing them. Complete waste of time. But I get it makes you feel better. Running under water does nothing except waste water.

I've not read anything on the thread yet that has convinced me not to wash grapes but not really fussed if others don't.

I don't wash mine, but I think you are wrong, Saltandvinegar .

Research last year showed that washing hands with water only did kill most germs from skin , so why not on grapes?

Having looked at the grapes I bought this week I put them in a bowl of water because they were covered in all sorts of crap, not a 'bloom' but splatters of dirt, bits of flower petals and heaven knows what else.

I wash fruit, including tomatoes. And veg. I have a fear of eating insects but am also not partial to rodent wee, fly eggs and poo and insecticides, although those actually permeate the skin/soil anyway.

It gets washed in a bowl or sink of water, and drained on a clean tea towel.

Nope. Never wash any fruit.

Am just wondering how many of the people that eat unwashed fruit and salad would eat the uncovered bakery items on the other thread, the ones with snot, coat sleeves and flies on.

Plenty of bleach and a good dose of gamma radiation does the trick for me.

I do wash fruit, so many people have handled it and I have a completely unreasonable vision in my head of one of these unknown people actually wiping their arse on my grapes. I know it says something very bad about me, but the vision is there.

Also prepared chicken, i can't eat that due to suspicion of chicken being used for arse wiping. Beef is safe because what kind of lunatic would wipe their arse on beef.

@thighofrelief

Also prepared chicken, i can't eat that due to suspicion of chicken being used for arse wiping. Beef is safe because what kind of lunatic would wipe their arse on beef.

Chicken is used for arse wiping? Sorry WTF ???!

When is it used for ARSE wiping?

thisneverending but can you guarantee it never happens?