sticky labels on apples - remove before washing!

I always wash all fruit .Those annoyingly sticky labels come off with a tiny blob of washing up liquid .

I love Pink Lady apples and they aren't cheap .
They are the first apples to produce a bloom and the last to be cultivated .
Cultivating them , apparently takes skill from trained technicians .
They were originally hybridised by John Cripps in Australia in 1973 and are a cross between a Golden Delicious and a Lady Williams .
They were originally known as a Cripps Pink , but Pink Lady is a more attractive name !

Most non-organic, or conventionally grown, apples are drenched in a chemical called diphenylamine. The chemical prevent the skin of apples in cold storage from developing brown or black patches known as “storage scald.”

Diphenylamine on its own is considered to have low toxicity. The danger is in the formation of nitrosamines on diphenylamine-treated fruit. Nitrosamines cause cancer in laboratory animals, and some studies have found that people who eat foods with nitrosamines have elevated rates of stomach and esophageal cancers.

Unless you can buy organic, don’t just remove labels from apples but wash them throughly and preferably peel them.

Nitrosamines are mostly found in meat especially cured meat.

apples definitely need washing, they are heavily sprayed and handled by all sorts of people. I get organic apples and always wash them, not washing them is sloppy behaviour jaxjacky

If you cannot get the label off just cut the skin off in that area before eating

I always^ wash fruit and vegetables. I have seen people going round supermarkets picking their noses and then picking up produce. Euuwww!

Jaxjacky

I don’t wash apples or any other fruit.

Yuk! I always wash all fruit and vegetables. You don’t know who’s been handling them. I don’t want a tummy bug or virus , thank you.

I don’t wash apples or any other fruit.