To peel or not to peel?

If you’re thinking that eating a variety of fruits and vegetables is the healthiest diet you can have, think again!

Well, of course fruits and vegetables are great, but on they’re life journey they suffer from severe abuse.
They are being massively sprayed, gassed, coated with wax and much more.
So we have lovely fruits in the supermarket: red tempting apples, yellow sweet bananas, lovely grapes and strawberries, but, do you really want to eat them?
Some (hard to digest) facts:
Fruits and vegetables are massively sprayed to help them grow faster and to prevent insects from “sampling” them. When we eat the vegetables and fruits, we eat the traces of those horrible chemicals.
The bananas we eat are artificially ripened. The green bananas are placed in sealed rooms and gassed with ethylene gas or Calcium carbide (a gas that may contain Arsenic or phosphorus). The gas destroys the chlorophyll and turns the fruit starch to fruit sugar.

Grown fruits and vegetables are often waxed to prevent moisture loss, to protect them from bruising during shipping, and increase their shelf life.

The wax is made from beeswax, beetles, petroleum and palm trees. It is not just the wax that may be of concern, but the other compounds often added to it - ethyl alcohol or ethanol for consistency, milk casein (a protein linked to milk allergy) as "film formers" and soaps as flowing agents.
That’s why some people are sure they are allergic to certain fruits when actually, it’s the wax they are allergic to!

Waxing apples

Unfortunately the only way we know of to remove the wax from non-organic produce is to remove the skin, as washing will not remove the wax or any bacteria trapped beneath it. If you choose to do this, use a peeler that takes only a thin layer of skin, as many healthy vitamins and minerals lie right below the skin.

Well, you can peel an apple, an orange or a cucumber but what about an apricot? Or pepper?
The best solution is to wash them thoroughly with soap and water.
Some people will nod and Click their tongue and say-why won’t you just buy organic food?
Well, not everyone can afford to buy organic food, but there are certain fruits and vegetables you better grow in your garden or buy organic. Fruits and vegetables with penetrable skin such as strawberries and grapes, they haven’t got the protective skin like the apple and they absorb the chemicals easily, so you end up eating chemicals instead of healthy food.

There are no magic solutions, but there are some reasonable things you can do:
peel,
wash and
grow your own
to keep yourself healthy.