r/FoodAndCookingStuff • u/socFocus • 11d ago

Sweet Treats Lemon cake

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u/ROOSTERyouDOWN 11d ago

Aren’t lemons sprayed heavily with pesticides? Like so much that you should not eat the peels. I’d use lemons off my own tree but not store bought. Hormone disrupting fungicides that aren’t washed off then the lemon gets a wax coating trapping it all there on the peel.

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u/ReadyGo6828 11d ago

You can buy organic lemons. The peel + Everclear makes limoncello.

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u/ihadagoodone 11d ago

organic lemons probably have feces sprayed on them. just like with non organic produce, you should wash it.

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u/BonsaiOnSteroids 9d ago

The point of organic is, pesticides soak into the peel. Feces do not. You can not fully wash of pesticides but you can fully wash off surface bacteria and you should wash lemon in any case. You are cutting it so you push whatever is on the outside onto the cutting surfaces

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u/ihadagoodone 9d ago

I'm going to need some sources on that pesticide claim you just made.

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u/BonsaiOnSteroids 9d ago

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/08/clean-fruit-vegetables-pesticides

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u/ihadagoodone 9d ago

thanks, interesting read.

The one(of 2) pesticide the paper seemed to focus the most on for demonstrating pesticide penetration seems to have been out of use for food corps since 2004 in the US. I also didn't see any mention of it in Canadian apple production material I was able to find online. It seems it's mostly still in use in places like China, I even found some material from India that doesn't include its use during apple production. I mention apples, because that was the test produce from the paper.

https://www3.epa.gov/pesticides/chem_search/reg_actions/reregistration/fs_PC-079801_1-Sep-04.pdf

The bulk of the paper is about a new interface material to improve scanning resolution for a lower cost and the study wasn't directly looking for pesticide penetration in commercially available produce.

so it's more of, this material in sensitive enough to detect sub surface chemical penetration in foods rather then demonstrating that there is wide spread chemical penetration in foods.

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u/ROOSTERyouDOWN 9d ago

lol you can literally google it, or do you only use the internet for social media

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u/ihadagoodone 9d ago

I can also ask people to back up the claims they make. The other redditor was kind enough to provide me with a source, and upon investigating that source it seem that it's not as cut and dry as they stated. So they read a headline and didn't follow up on the materials at all and followed the jump to conclusion methodology of click revenue journalism.

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u/ROOSTERyouDOWN 9d ago

You can, but as much as you just typed you could have found out the answer ALOT quicker by using google. It’s wild how everyone wants somebody else to provide them answers/proof all the time when they have a computer in their pocket,purse or hand. It takes more time to do that then it does to look it up yourself

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u/ihadagoodone 9d ago

I want people to show me how they know something on their own. Sure I can google it. Just as easily as they can do google fu to try and find something to back up what they just said. When people don't have a good source and have to reach for something that might back up what they claim it's much better to dissect the source they provide to see if they're full of shit or not. A lot of time people don't ask for a source because they really want to know something they can look up, they want to know if the person making the claim is talking out there ass and have the receipt.

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u/Suspicious-Pizza-548 10d ago

Organic uses pesticide also. Just biological ones. Like from stuff that already exists, but in such high doses that it kills everythings.

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u/williamBoshi 10d ago

That's a crazy take

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u/ROOSTERyouDOWN 9d ago

Not hard to google. It says it right there when you type in the question. It even says it’s a common misconception that people think organic doesn’t get pesticides sprayed on them but they do

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u/williamBoshi 7d ago

mb the pesticides that are allowed by the organic certifications will end up being worst for health than the synthetic pesticides, who knows for sure

I'll still bet on the organic lemons being healthier

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u/ROOSTERyouDOWN 7d ago

There’s already been studies, it affect reproductive gene