Yep, with soap. Just fill the sink with warm water and a little dish soap. I asked my boss about this (she's a biologist) and she said you should wash everything, even fruits like oranges because most of the time you peel and eat right away...unless you peel and then wash your hands good and then eat them. If you just rinse it's not getting rid of the sometimes harmful chemicals on them. I was shocked too...but it makes sense.

With soap??... Do I need one of those Brillo pad doohickeys as well??...

Would something like an orange be protected by its thick skin, which we don't eat anyway??...

Yep, with soap. Just fill the sink with warm water and a little dish soap. I asked my boss about this (she's a biologist) and she said you should wash everything, even fruits like oranges because most of the time you peel and eat right away...unless you peel and then wash your hands good and then eat them. If you just rinse it's not getting rid of the sometimes harmful chemicals on them. I was shocked too...but it makes sense.

When buying fruit, how can you tell if it's ripe/ready to eat or not??

Specifically, how can you tell you're getting good grapes, apples and oranges? (bananas I can tell easily..lol)

I love fruit, I eat tons of it (veggies too).

Doesn't that picture look good??...

What about green apples?

I use some stuff called Fit to wash my produce. It's made specifically for it.


http://www.tryfit.com/






You can get it at the grocery store.

I bet you anything we'll find out in 20 years Fit causes cancer or something.


Germophobes be careful.... keep away from pesticides but be aware that being exposed to too few germs will weaken your immune system.

Cool... I bought a few oranges the other day, and while trying to peel them the skin just would NOT come off...all the oranges I'd bought before peeled very easily, and the oranges themselves were great. So, I wasn't sure why this was happening, plus the oranges weren't as sweet this time.. But they looked the same as the others I had bought in the past (or so I thought)...

Also, do I actually pull a grape off of the stem to see how tightly connected it is??...

You're so cute

Well...I've found that the sweetest oranges have the thickest skins...so next time you're at the store really feel them...if you squeeze a bit and feel it has a thin skin...pass it up...look for the ones that have the thick skin.

they gas the oranges to turn them "orange" so color isnt a good guidline...unless its an all organic food store ...

I knew that food coloring was added to apples to make them more red, but I didn't know they gassed oranges. Ewwww, and I just ate one for lunch.

its rather disturbing the amount of crap they do to foods to make it look nice ... to sell

It's rather disturbing the amount of crap we humans require...in order to give something (or someone) value...corporations understand the amount of value we give the visual...and they play off that knowledge in a million different ways. We can't expect them to change their stripes, until we ourselves learn to change ours.


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I tried this over the weekend...and I couldn't tell at all if the skin was thin, thick, or somewhere in between... ...So I just went for color.

If you squeeze the fruit a little bit you can tell...the ones with the thicker skins are less squishy and have more of a deeply dimpled skin. You've just got to get the hang of it

Is it bad when they make you leave because you're enjoy the squeezing a bit too much?

Is it bad when they make you leave because you're enjoy the squeezing a bit too much?

Try not to moan and whisper "Oh, yeahhh..." as you do...