@SeahorseTreble to No Stupid Questions • 2 years agoDo all fruits have bugs inside them, or do most commercial fruits in fact not have any bugs?message-square27arrow-up171arrow-down14
arrow-up167arrow-down1message-squareDo all fruits have bugs inside them, or do most commercial fruits in fact not have any bugs?@SeahorseTreble to No Stupid Questions • 2 years agomessage-square27
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•2 years agoPesticides keep the bugs off commercial fruit. Think carefully about that though… imagine spraying toxic chemicals on your food so nothing wants to eat it.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink9•2 years agoMost pesticides are water soluble but the dirt and crap that gets on during transport is not.
minus-square@Deestanlink11•2 years agoTo be fair, many things we ingest purposefully are toxic or at least repellant to various bugs and vermin. Salt, caffeine, chocolate, nicotine, avocado, alcohol.
minus-square@spittingimagelink2•2 years agoI don’t know, but cats do. My cat once licked my hand when I’d been cooking with chillies… poor little guy.
minus-squareDandroidlinkfedilink1•2 years agoThe pesticides break down into salt and water, and anything left we can wash off.
Pesticides keep the bugs off commercial fruit.
Think carefully about that though… imagine spraying toxic chemicals on your food so nothing wants to eat it.
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With soap?
Most pesticides are water soluble but the dirt and crap that gets on during transport is not.
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To be fair, many things we ingest purposefully are toxic or at least repellant to various bugs and vermin.
Salt, caffeine, chocolate, nicotine, avocado, alcohol.
Yep. Alcohol is even a full on poison.
Don’t forget capsaicin.
Birds don’t care about capsaicin. Do insects??
I don’t know, but cats do. My cat once licked my hand when I’d been cooking with chillies… poor little guy.
Yeah… mammals are affected. I doubt insects are.
The pesticides break down into salt and water, and anything left we can wash off.
Define “salt”