If a vegetable is peeled completey, then does it need to be washed?

Question

Let's assume that your hands and the peeling implement are clean.

Answer 1

not washed, but rinsed.

you need to get the remnants of peel off.

but, like an onion, if you peel it, it doesn't need to be rinsed or anything...unless you find a worm!

Answer 2

OK so you peel your apple... you use your knife to cut into the peeling and repeatedly use the knife to peel away the skin of said apple until it's all white, juicy, and healthy-delicious looking...

Now stop and think a second... the knife you used to peel the apple did come into direct contact with the peel repeatedly, right? The cutting board or table you set the peeled apple down on, it was the same one on which the unpeeled apple was resting, right? In the same way that the germs from your hand would spread to the apple germs from the knife and cutting board will spread. These germs and bacteria and pesticides and such are probably not going to kill you, no. They might, over years, make you get some types of cancers or cause you to have kidney or liver problems, but who cares about the long term effects of you can save yourself 30 seconds and a few pints of drinking water...

Just rinse it off, man. No biggie. Why take chances?

If you took the time to put the question up on Yahoo you probably already thought too much about it... and God knows the time I spent answering the question has been five minutes totally wasted of my life... I should be mad at you... but I'm not. Enjoy your fruit! :)

Answer 3

&V safe to eat without washing - Food Industry Report - fruits, vegetables - Brief Article
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The UK's Food Standards Agency (FSA) said last month that people no longer need to wash and peel fruit and vegetables as a precaution against pesticide residues, advice which has been condemned as irresponsible by consumer groups and environmentalists.

Independent scientists who advise the FSA on pesticides safety, said that 1997 guidelines on washing and peeling were only ever intended as a precaution and could now be ignored, given the substantially reduced levels of residue found on crops. But the FSA is still stressing that washing fruit and vegetables is a sensible food hygiene measure.

Sheila McKechnie, director of the Consumers' Association, said the long-standing advice on peeling and washing was a "sensible precaution," particularly for small children. "Any review of the FSA's advice on washing and peeling fruit and vegetables would be premature, and the Consumers' Association is concerned about how the review of this advice seems to have come about," she said.

"Fruit and vegetables tested still contain pesticide residues. Figures show that 72% of apples and 81% of pears have residues, and it has recently been reported that 61% of grapes and 63% of kiwifruit contained toxic chemicals," McKechnie said.

Answer 4

I can't believe these people that are saying the implement spreads whatever to the inside.
Of course I'm assuming you washed the outside before you began peeling.
Can't figure out who's being silly here.
Just wash everything-then figure anything that's only touched a clean board,hands and implements is safe to put in your mouth! For goodness sake-studies show that bugs routinely crawl into sleeping people's open mouths and are swallowed! Everybody stop being so paranoid-we ain't all that fragile.

Answer 5

I always rinse after peeling, even if I washed it before I peeled it. There are other things on the outside besides pesticides and they could be spread to the peeled areas as you go.

Answer 6

still would wash the veggy anyway . All the vitamins are in the peeling.

Answer 7

It doesn't... but I would still wash before peeling.

Answer 8

You should. If you cut into the skin, bacteria on the skin will transfer onto the knife. When the knife digs deeper into the flesh, the bacteria on the knife will spread onto the flesh.

Answer 9

I would say yes because pesticides can still penetrate the skin.

Answer 10

Still wash it