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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle

Do we really need to wash fruit and vegetables before eating?

Extreme close-up image of raspberries
Would you wash them? Photograph: Nikola Bilic / Alamy/Alamy

My partner and I cannot agree whether we should wash fruit and veg before eating. Does it make a difference? Particularly, is it worth washing fruit with a bloom such as plums, when the water appears to run straight off? And raspberries, once wet, seem to turn to mush.

GreenLover, Edinburgh

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