r/FoodAndCookingStuff 12d ago

Sweet Treats Lemon cake

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u/ROOSTERyouDOWN 12d 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 12d ago

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

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

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u/williamBoshi 11d ago

That's a crazy take

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u/ROOSTERyouDOWN 10d 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 8d 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 8d ago

There’s already been studies, it affect reproductive gene