I buy blue berries and eat them at my desk, can't be bothered to wash them, so eat them as they are - is this a big potential porblem>?
2007-02-01 01:25:01 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
Yes, it is. Pesticides are harmful cancer-causing chemicals. You do not want to ingest them. Besides causing cancer in the long term (which it has been unequivocally proven that they do), they can also make you sick in the short term. Every fruit and vegetable, unless it is organic, is sprayed with pesticides.
Wash your fruit please!
2007-02-01 01:34:01 · answer #1 · answered by jessamess 2 · 2⤊ 5⤋
Yes, it is a disease waiting to happen. Think about where they've been before they reached your desk
1. touched by workers who may have not washed their hands after going to the bathroom
2. on the floor of a truck where people stood with their dirty boots while loading them
3. in a store where the employees might have accidentally sprayed cleaning supplies (those, by the way, do not kill E. Coli), or dropped the box on the floor than picked it up
4. not so much the berries, but for apples and other larger fruits- people in the store have been touching them when deciding what to buy, and you don't know if they've been washing their hand
5. If they have been prewashed, cleaned and put in a zip lock bag by the store, then of course you do not need to wash them. However, if you buy whole berries, they always have some sand and dirt from the ground, which is not very appetizing
I think it's kind of self-explanatory that you need to wash them
2007-02-01 10:13:08 · answer #2 · answered by jimbell 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
By not washing your fruit before eating them; is very bad. You are exposing yourself to more germs than you can imagine. Here is why...
It is hand picked by S<<< (Did he/she wash their hands before touching the fruit?),put in a bag or basket that was not always cleaned between uses. Taken to a processing plant, Do you know how sanitary it is there? Not to mention the chemicals used on it. Oh, and you should have seen the bugs, animals and birds that hang around the plants/trees.
It is boxed, shipped to at least 3 places before it arrives in your store. Do you know that your produce personnel have clean hands? Many other people touch it. They have had their hands on many other items before looking the fruit over.
All it takes is 1 germ to make you ill.
Washing gets rid of most if not all of the harmful bacterias that are very harmful.
2007-02-01 09:57:16 · answer #3 · answered by nmd_elkie 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Think of it. Items fall to the floor/ground before packing or being placed in containers. What about the pesticides?
Well, I guess some of those chemicals can't be washed off. But would give 'em a spritz anyway
2007-02-01 09:56:29 · answer #4 · answered by claudette c 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I never wash fruit either.
1. Life's too short
2. The reason kids are always ill these days is because everything's too sanitised for them - not allowed to make mud pies etc. I know that's a terrible sweeping generalisation but I'm forever hearing 'that's dirty - put it down'. Eating a bit of mud now and then will only make you stronger!
2007-02-01 10:39:00 · answer #5 · answered by bumblebee 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Probably not the greatest idea, but how many of us have eaten unwashed fruits or veggies and nothing's happened? When I grew up this huge paranoia about washing veggies wasn't around. Unless it came out of the dirt and then you'd wash them. I don't wash grapes, I just eat them as they are. In other words, don't worry too much about it. Too much hype about washing fruits.
2007-02-01 09:52:02 · answer #6 · answered by chefgrille 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i used to work in the warehouse of a big supermarket (the biggest) in the uk and in the back where all the veg / fruit was kept, we had a huge problem with rats and mice. Although the rats steadily ate most of the mice.
Is it a bad idea not to wash the fruit ? , no but stupid.
good health.
2007-02-01 09:38:54 · answer #7 · answered by eric t 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes! Pesticide poison! Even better is buying organic. Then you don't have to worry about the pesticides, only the pickers and packers (which honestly hadn't even occured to me. Glad I wash!).
2007-02-01 12:33:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah it could cause you to get sick from the potential dirt, pesticides or what if somebody walking by sneezed on them or what if some how somebody was trying to decide which ones looked better had just picked up a package of meat and now the package you bought that they put back is now contaminated with salmonella or e-coli or some crap plus i think they just taste better because some fruits are kinda waxy and it helps get rid of some so next time to them to the restroom or water fountain and rinse them off in the container since most containers have holes in the bottom and grab some paper towels from the mens room or ladies room to sit the container on so drops of water dont go all over your desk but if you forgot the paper towels once you move the container you will see crap floating in the water drops on your desk so wash them if you dont want to get sick plus it takes like a minute to wash vs. a week to get better
2007-02-01 09:35:50 · answer #9 · answered by sexy b 3 · 1⤊ 4⤋
My husband never washes the fruit I bring home, he looks at me, smiles and rubs the apple on his shirt and says, Good enough for me!
He's very healthy. At least ya'll are eating fruit! Yay for fruit! LOL
and you guys with your organic crap.....they still use pesticides, they are just limited on what they can use...... read an article or two....
2007-02-01 09:52:02 · answer #10 · answered by biology_freak 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I take it you don't realise what insects, flying and crawling, or passing birds have deposited on them, and that's before the bloke in the packing factory has just had them in his hands straight after he's been for a pee!
2007-02-01 10:07:13 · answer #11 · answered by wunceinawhile 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋