Fresh fruit and veggies

[Tim]

Washing fruit is about getting all the poison off. They spray everything with insecticides these days.

Like most things insecticides have a shelf life once sprayed.

 

[DrDaliah]

They don't....But as @DubbleD said, "A little dirt never hurt anyone."
I was raised on a small farm and when we were kids, we used to eat all kinds of fruit from our orchard that wasn't washed, straight off the trees and out of the bins that the pickers put them in....Probably pretty filthy.

We rarely got sick as kids and I very rarely get sick as an adult.

People these days disinfect everything in their homes to such a ridiculous degree that they don't let their kids develop "immunities" to anything and then they wonder why the kids are always getting sick.
Its fairly simple as far as I can see....When the kid goes out into the real world where people are a bunch of trucking slobs that never wash their hands after using the restroom and then grab the door handles that the kid then grabs later....The poor little bastard with the underdeveloped immune system gets sick!

That's just my .02

agreed!! Now we have packaged probiotics when most of these come from the crap on our food anyway.

 

[Road Dust]

I think it depends on where the food comes from too. I don't remember my family ever spraying with anything. There are many small farmers nowadays too who are totally organic. I try to be, but even spraying with Neem oil leaves a residue that I would not want to eat.

 

[rokstdy1]

Unless marked as 'Certified Organic' any fruits or veggies bought at a grocery store, big box chain etc. have been treated with Pesticides, Herbicides, Larvacides, Fungicides...
The average person eating those fruits and veggies is consuming approx. a gallon of those chemicals over the course of a year. If they consumed that in one sitting they'd die immediately, but since its consumed little by little over the year evidently its safe.....things that make you go "hmmmmmm".

 

[8978]

As kids we use to camp out in the woods then raid the farm for fruit and raw corn on the cob. Didn't matter how ripe it was. We all paid the price a few hours later.

 

[Road Dust]

Unless marked as 'Certified Organic' any fruits or veggies bought at a grocery store, big box chain etc. have been treated with Pesticides, Herbicides, Larvacides, Fungicides...

Actually, from what I have read, the Certified Organic label doesn't always mean it is free of chemicals since government standards allow a certain amount and still be called organic. There are many small farmers who grow purely organic food but it is not labeled as such because of the time and expense of getting certification. It is really hard to know exactly what is in our food unless we grow it ourselves or know and trust the person who grew it

 

[rokstdy1]

Actually, from what I have read, the Certified Organic label doesn't always mean it is free of chemicals since government standards allow a certain amount and still be called organic. There are many small farmers who grow purely organic food but it is not labeled as such because of the time and expense of getting certification. It is really hard to know exactly what is in our food unless we grow it ourselves or know and trust the person who grew it

Thats a great point, and you are absolutely right. Unless you grow it yourself you don't know what you are getting. Even if they are "Organic" there is no guarantee that the soil isn't being over used for the sake of production. Our bodies need more minerals than the typical "NPK" fertilizers used to grow production crops. That is why even for "Healthy Eaters" quality supplements are so important.

So the question is, If most "Healthy" foods aren't as healthy as we thought, and if we tried to eat Salads as big as a Peterbilt steering wheel to make up for the lack of nutrition, how do folks who are constantly on the move get adequate nutrition conveniently, and without going broke to do it?