eli5 Does rinsing fruits & vegetables under water before eating actually do anything to clean them?
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There was an interview with a person from the CDC I saw several years ago when there was concern about romaine lettuce. He said they had research that showed rinsing fruit and veg (he said never use any soaps or other products) didn’t decrease the incidence of any food borne illnesses or reduce the amount of pesticides or herbicides but he still always rinsed his fruit and veg.
From that I basically changed my own policy in our house. If it was easy to rinse like an apple, then do it. But if it’s hard or annoying like lettuce and I don’t want to do it and will choose something unhealthy to eat rather than rinse my lettuce for a salad, I don’t do it. We’ve never gotten sick from contaminated fruit or veg and we eat way more fruit and veg now than we used to.
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