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DogMuffins ,

Pesticides keep the bugs off commercial fruit.

Think carefully about that though… imagine spraying toxic chemicals on your food so nothing wants to eat it.

dorkian_gray ,
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When the bugs develop soap, we’ll have to find another way to deter them. Until then, wash your fruits and veggies.

Chriszz ,

With soap?

Luci ,
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Most pesticides are water soluble but the dirt and crap that gets on during transport is not.

dorkian_gray ,
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I use regular dish soap to wash my apples and other hard produce, yes. Works a treat, but a dedicated fruit/vegetable wash (“Fit” is an example brand in the US) works too. It may leave fewer deposits/less residue, no idea, I haven’t looked up any papers on it. The main reason I started was even rinsing my apples with water alone, I’d notice a chemical taste on the skins which is very similar to how the produce stands at the supermarket smell. Washing with soap gets rid of it, as long as I make sure to get the crevices at the “poles” of the apple.

dandroid ,

The pesticides break down into salt and water, and anything left we can wash off.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA ,
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Define “salt”

NeoNachtwaechter ,

Apples have, always.

Androids too, but they do not count as fruit.

;-)

xc2215x ,

No. Some do though.

agamemnonymous ,
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Most don’t, figs do though.

meepmeep ,

I no longer like figs

Lemjukes ,

To my knowledge the only fruits that “have bugs in 'em” are figs.

Noodle07 ,

The flies ate the cherries before my aunt could harvest them… So that

nothacking ,

Most don’t, but some inevitably do. The FDA actually has non zero limits for things like poop, bug bits, etc. For example frozen broccoli is allowed to have 60 aphids, thrips or mites (small bugs) per 100 grams. Bay leaves are allowed to have up to 1mg of poop per pound, etc.

theKalash ,

Most fruits do not have bugs inside them.

ultratiem ,
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As a non bug eating person, this makes me happy

Nollij ,

While you may not do so intentionally, I can assure you that you do, in fact, eat a lot of bugs. In fact, there are countless standards on how much bug can be in your common foods. The amount is never zero.

ItsMeForRealNow ,

It can never be either I think. It is more of “I don’t choose to eat bugs ever” than “I never eat bugs”.

agitatedpotato ,

For what its worth I’d wager more bugs have fruit inside them then fruit that has bugs inside.

dublet ,

A fair hypothesis, but can you substantiate it?

GuybrushThreepwo0d ,

I think most fruit have fruit inside them tbh

megsmagik ,

I have a (little) garden with fruit and vegetables and only a few have bugs inside, like other commenters said when they have bugs they also have a hole so they become inedible before I pick them. I don’t use pesticides and sometimes I find an ant or a worm, mostly inside figs, apples and pears, and when there are wasps inside you can spot them when the fruit is still on the tree and leave them alone!

Freitag ,

Found the city kiddy

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