For years people thought nothing of grabbing a banana and peeling it to eat. I use to do this all the time thinking the fruit is inside and clean.
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Then I watched a news report, could have been on 20/20 maybe? It was quite sometime ago. But it discussed all about the germs and filth that is on the outside of fruit that we least think about. Mainly the, banana.
Other fruit includes watermelon, melons, pineapples, coconuts, oranges, anything that you have to cut into or take the peel off and how dirty the outside is from the handleing and care of it. Spray residue, dirty hands, bugs, rodents, etc. all have touched the outside of your fruit before you get it. All the people in the grocery store from the produce department, to the many shoppers touch your fruit (or veggies) before this fruit ends up in your cart, and then peeled and ate by you.
They demonstrated that water alone did not clean all the dirt and germs off. They highly recommended using one of the fruit sprays that wash your fruit before you eat it. But if you don't have one of the products that's ok, but still never, ever eat anything without scrubbing the entire outside of it first.
Just the act of a clean knife cutting into the fruit drags the germs/dirt from the outside of it right into the inside part and that is what you are putting into your mouth.
It was a good informative show and it always makes me think twice when I pick up a banana now. It's rinse than peel for me.
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