Washing fruits & veggies

[amaranth]

What products (if any) safely remove pesticides from the outside of produce? I've read so many things online and don't know what to use.

Plain water seems no better than rain. Vinegar leaves an aftertaste. I bet bleach would work but kill us. Lol.

Confession: I've just been barely rinsing dirt off lately. I feel like there are so many chemicals inside non organic produce anyway that what's the use? Lol.

[estrellita]

I let them soak in water with some vinegar and then rinse them off. I've never had an aftertaste of vinegar. I think there are some fruit and veggie washes out there but I think a lot of them are just vinegar water, lol.

[amaranth]

Aug 12, 2015 8:51:31 GMT -5 estrellita said:

I let them soak in water with some vinegar and then rinse them off. I've never had an aftertaste of vinegar. I think there are some fruit and veggie washes out there but I think a lot of them are just vinegar water, lol.

What proportion of water to vinegar do you use? Maybe I add too much vinegar. I am generous.

[estrellita]

Aug 12, 2015 8:53:54 GMT -5 amaranth said:

Aug 12, 2015 8:51:31 GMT -5 estrellita said:

I let them soak in water with some vinegar and then rinse them off. I've never had an aftertaste of vinegar. I think there are some fruit and veggie washes out there but I think a lot of them are just vinegar water, lol.

What proportion of water to vinegar do you use? Maybe I add too much vinegar. I am generous.

I don't use an exact recipe but it's usually maybe a quarter to half cup for a bowl? Not sure what size the bowls are.. like a regular mixing bowl. Sorry I'm not that helpful, lol.

[HoneySpider]

I'm bad about this. I use water and call it a day.

[travelbug]

Aug 12, 2015 9:17:05 GMT -5 HoneySpider said:

I'm bad about this. I use water and call it a day.

Me too...

[pooh8402]

I do 50:50 water and vinegar

[MrsMB]

I just use water.

[Deleted]

I use water, and I scrub certain things, like zucchini, with a produce brush. I never tried the vinegar thing, but maybe I should.

[amaranth]

Well at least my confession isn't terribly flameful. I thought I was going to receive accusations of trying to kill my family.

[MrsMB]

Aug 12, 2015 11:14:43 GMT -5 amaranth said:

Well at least my confession isn't terribly flameful. I thought I was going to receive accusations of trying to kill my family.

You can always XP to ML....I'm sure they'd love to jump on something

[estrellita]

For a lot of things I just rinse them in the sink.. like apples for example. So no, no flames from me, haha.

[awick14]

I am also just a water user.

[grover]

Only water here

[mac08]

It's actually never occurred to me to use anything other than water!

ETA- vinegar really disgusts me, even though I know it's a great natural cleaning agent, I just can't bring myself to use it because of the smell 

[amaranth]

Well, I just bought a few more gallons of vinegar (I use it in laundry) so I will give it a try again. I'm starting to feel guilty feeding M unwashed fruit or barely washed.

[bk1]

I just use water.

[wanderingenough]

Water only here, too.

If you are worried about what's dirtiest, google produce dirty dozen. It'll tell you what to invest your produce cleaning time in