My husband refuses to wash fruit before eating - any facts I can use to scare him into doing so!?

Answer 1

Tell him they are picked by lepers.

Answer 2

I was exactly the same until I saw a report about tests that were done to supermarket fruit and fruit from greengrocers. Both had a predominance of e coli bugs on them. This was thought to come from all of the handling the fruit goes through from tree to table. Even the machinery that handled fruit had the e coli bugs on them. The fruit is then put out in displays and all sort of people come along and pick them up and handle them. I have seen people actually smell fruit and put it back into the display. They get dropped onto filthy floors and pick up all sorts left there from the bottom of shoes. I also see so many people leaving the supermarket toilets without washing their hands and then they handle the fruit.
Now I always wash fruit and even after pealing a banana or orange I wash before I handle the fruit.The bugs are everywhere.
Then there is the sprayed on insecticides. It's endless.

Answer 3

What dictates whether you should wash fruit or not is where you get it from.

By it from a supermarket with all the additives, colourants and preservative sprays then yes, you should sandblast it.

Buy it from a trusted farm shop ( attached to a farm, not an in-city trendy one ) will be good, you can ask if they spray them with anything.

alternatvely, buy them from someone you know, whose trees are in a garden.

Why would you choose to buy fruit covered in chemicals then wash it off, wouldn't if be far more sensible to buy properly grown fruit in the first place.

Answer 4

Remind him how many people actually put their DIRTY HANDS on the fruit at the supermarket.
Tell him you saw someone take their finger out of their nose or blow their nose then touch and feel the fruit at the fruit stand.
Remind him this is flu season and he may get the flu if he eats a piece of fruit that someone has touched after they've coughed, sneezed in their hand or blew their nose. GROSS!!!!

Answer 5

He has a problem - unfortunately the problem is you. You're paranoid. Food health standards are rigorous. Yeah sure the teenager who packed the fruit on the shelf *might* have picked his nose before touching that particualr apple, but it ain't gonna kill anyone.
I spent many years living in Africa where a lot of people try to scratch a living on a very low or even zero income. Fancy westerners who adopted "poor impoverished black babies" were shocked at how sick they got - the answer is simple. The human body NEEDS to be exposed to certain threats in order to build up the immune system.
Get a life.

Answer 6

You could do for him like I do for my kids. Wash them first yourself....My kids used to grab the grapes especially and eat without washing....So I plucked them and put in a strainer and washed and then to a bowl in the fridg...didn't have to worry about my kids getting sick...Actually after that I started doing that with all my fruit...My kids are older now, but it is just a habbit for me now...Its also easier when I may want something to just get it....Also, bananas last alittle longer if you wrap them individually in plastic wrap....weird but it works...something about keeping the air out. Hope this helps.

Answer 7

so which you think of rinsing it decrease than the faucet will do away with micro organism? And what concerning the fertilisers used to enhance the fruit, is that gonna wash off with a rapid rinse too? while you're in touch approximately it being grimy i advise you sterilize all your fruit previously you eat it reason who is familiar with what the hell is on it in any different case do not difficulty

Answer 8

If he doesnt want to wash it, nothing is going to make him wash.
If it bothers you that much, why not wash the fruit yourself then dry it off and put it back in the fruit bowl?

Answer 9

The thought of how many people touched the fruit and where there hand have been before I walked into the grocery store grosses me out.

Answer 10

Fruit is sprayed with pesticides.

Some pesticides have been shown to mimic the female sex hormone, Oestrogen.

So if he ingests enough unwashed apples he may grow breasts. Or experience shrinkage of his male equipment.

In my book that's scarier than a bit of dirt.

Note: the scientific basis of this may be a bit wobbly

Answer 11

If he is still safe, then he has developed immunity. Let him play his game, but you should not eat the fruits without washing. Otherwise he will be happy to have a new wife.