SeahorseTreble@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 year agoDo all fruits have bugs inside them, or do most commercial fruits in fact not have any bugs?message-squaremessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up168arrow-down14
arrow-up164arrow-down1message-squareDo all fruits have bugs inside them, or do most commercial fruits in fact not have any bugs?SeahorseTreble@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square23fedilink
minus-squareDogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down10·1 year agoPesticides keep the bugs off commercial fruit. Think carefully about that though… imagine spraying toxic chemicals on your food so nothing wants to eat it.
minus-squareLucilinkfedilinkarrow-up9·1 year agoMost pesticides are water soluble but the dirt and crap that gets on during transport is not.
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minus-squareDeestan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 year agoTo be fair, many things we ingest purposefully are toxic or at least repellant to various bugs and vermin. Salt, caffeine, chocolate, nicotine, avocado, alcohol.
minus-squareVaggumon@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·1 year agoYep. Alcohol is even a full on poison.
minus-squareDandroid@dandroid.applinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoThe pesticides break down into salt and water, and anything left we can wash off.
Pesticides keep the bugs off commercial fruit.
Think carefully about that though… imagine spraying toxic chemicals on your food so nothing wants to eat it.
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With soap?
Most pesticides are water soluble but the dirt and crap that gets on during transport is not.
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To be fair, many things we ingest purposefully are toxic or at least repellant to various bugs and vermin.
Salt, caffeine, chocolate, nicotine, avocado, alcohol.
Yep. Alcohol is even a full on poison.
Don’t forget capsaicin.
The pesticides break down into salt and water, and anything left we can wash off.
Define “salt”