Hayabusa wrote:
> Oranges and lemons are usually sprayed with some chemicals to preserve
> them. This stuff should not be eaten. But some recipes ask for lemon
> or orange zest. I have trouble to find unsprayed oranges in the shop.
> But someone told me that it suffices to simply wash the fruits with
> warm water and a drop of detergent. Would anyone know if this is true,
> or if there is more one should know about?

Chemicals... everything is chemicals. duh

Fruits and vegetables are coated with natural plant wax, perfectly
edible... in fact as safe to eat as the fruits and vegetables it
protects, in fact safer than the fruits and vegetables it protects....
in fact if you eat fruits and vegetables that haven't been coated you
still can't avoid plant wax, it's in there. The way you're carrying on
someone would think you're talking filthy wax from unbathed hairy eared
dagos. And anyway, most all the citrus you buy is dyed with food
coloring too.

Sheesh, yoose folks ascared of a little wax must have some boring sex
lives... your own well scrubbed hand and a Kleenex.

Wax

Vegetable wax. Many plants have a natural wax coating that protects
them from heat and moisture. Carnauba wax, the hardest and most widely
used vegetable wax, coats the leaves of the carnauba palm tree. It
remains solid in hot weather and is an important ingredient in
automobile wax and other polishes. Other vegetable waxes include
bayberry wax, candelilla wax, Japan wax, and sugar cane wax.

World Book Online Reference Center. 2006. World Book, Inc. 28 Jan. 2006

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