To ask how well you wash your fruit?

[Badoukas]

So lately I've been eating more soft fruit like raspberries, blueberries, cherries etc. The type you get in plastic trays from supermarkets, not marketed as organic.

Does anyone know if this kind of product is likely to have been sprayed with pesticides, and if so, how much rinsing does it actually need? I feel like I could be trying to do something healthy whilst simultaneously poisoning myself with nasty chemicals!

Only a quick rinse under the tap but that's more to get rid of fly poo. Most insecticides, fertilisers are systemic so it is pointless to do otherwise

No, the reason the government (etc.) advice is to rinse it is because rinsing it washes quite a bit away. I did a quick search and there is quite a bit of research supporting the view 'yes it removes some, no it doesn't remove all'.