Washing Fruit Won't Remove Pesticides

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Washing fruit won't completely remove pesticides, so this is what you have to do

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Chinese researchers published a paper in the American Chemical Society’s Nano Letters journal detailing experiments that prove pesticides might linger on foods even after washing them.

They found that removing the apple peel was the only thing that helped diminish pesticide contamination.

The study seems to reinforce findings from Consumer Reports that 20% of 59 fruit and vegetable categories had pesticide residues that pose “significant risks”.

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