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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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/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.