Can I fuss once more ?
 

I hate those l little stickers that is now being placed on thin skinned fruit such as apples, peaches , plums and the sort ! I like to wash my fruit immediately after purchase, not being sure how many hands have touched the fruit I just purchased. M:undecided::undecided:y fruit then sits on the counter with torn skin spots the exact size of the sticker.

Fresh produce can have been anywhere and is the cause of a number of food borne illnesses, from being watered with dirty water and who knows where the pickers paws have been...... but if your immune system isn't challenged than you should be o.k.

I do understand. It gives me pause too.

I must have the touch. They peel right off for me.

I just eat them.

:wave::1rotfl::1rotfl::mademyday:

And the stickers too? Why not as long as the fruit is clean?

Could you leave the stickers on when you wash them?

Fiber

No wipe necessary.

You can always be counted on.:laugh:

Some people think they're actually made to eat.

They're not.

Stickers NOT made to eat

Those Little Sticky Things
 

Evidently I did something wrong when I posted this issue yesterday. Let me try again because this really bums me out. I hate those little sticky doo dads that wholesalers put on fruit and vegetables, especially fruit with thin skins. Who knows how many hands have handled my newly purchased fruit. I wash them almost immediately. Of course those sticky things have to be removed and this is where I take issue. Right now my peaches, plums and nectarenes sit on my counter, each with a piece of skin missing the size of a sticker.

I think those little sticky things are there so they don't charge you for McIntosh when you bought Granny Smith.

:mademyday:

Peal them off just before you eat them. Problem solved !!!!!

What about Sticker Shock Syndrome?

I think refreik's problem is that she has to wash UNDER the stickers as soon as she purchases the fruit.
I like dewilson's approach, eat the sticker. :1rotfl:

I think Refeik is a guy. Not that it matters...Maybe a girl. He/she said that for 38 years they worked resurfacing highways and roads.

Don't they spray the fruit every morning in the supermarket to keep it looking freash? I don't like the stickers either, but I bet the have important information on the little sticker. May finger are too shaker to type from iPad anymore, I have to edit cause it just insert different word it I don't hit the right key? :blahblahblah: I know:MOJE_whot:

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10 Little Known Facts About Fruit Stickers..... check out number 1 - should make OP very happy

10 Little Known Facts About Fruit Stickers - YouTube

That was amazing, thank-you.

I personally never gave much thought to the labels but very interesting video.

dewilson was right all along -- stickers are edible!

Seriously though - if the existence of the glue bothers you so much, just wash the fruit as if it didn't have the glue on it (don't scrub so hard, peaches are delicate, sheesh). And then grab a vegetable peeler and peel the offending square millimeter off.

For me the stickers are very important...
The codes that start with the number 9 mean they are grown organically.
The codes that start with a number 4 are sprayed with toxic pesticide.

That isn't true.

If they start with a 9, it means they are organic - and might be sprayed with insecticides that have been approved for organic farming. It also means that the farm upwind of them MIGHT have sprayed, and some of those toxins MIGHT be on the organic farmer's fruits anyway. But the organic farm didn't use any non-approved insecticides.

If they don't start with a 9, it means they have not gotten organic certification. They might - or might not - be using any toxic insecticides, or they might be using the insecticides approved for organic farming. The ONLY thing it means, is that they don't have the organic certification itself.

Gently peel off before getting them wet. If stickers get wet the backing can not be removed without damaging the skin

Most of us are in our dotage, and have made it this far eating a lot worse than todays pesticides, let alone other peoples hands touching the fruit.
I have survived the good old days of DDT with everything, and many years of military cooking, which I may add should make any immune system totally impervious to any bug todays soft fruit can throw at you!
I am with the 'just eat it brigade.'

Why don't you just wash the fruit, sticker and all, and wait to peel it off when you are going to eat it? No holey fruit that way. :icon_wink:

I used to eat veggies right straight out of the dirt in the garden (ie radishes, carrots) while I was playing! YUM!! My dad used DDT on folage on our acreage and I ran barefoot much of the summer. Why fuss?? It's a 1st world problem.....

You go girl. You'll eat a peck of dirt before you die...heard that a few times.

Yep! We had DDT strips hanging in the house killing flies and the old folk!!

My grandfather once complained about some sand in his food. He was told, "Everybody eats about a pound of sand in their lifetime."

He replied, "Yeah, but not all at once."

:agree: Don't be picky, the things you worry about won't kill you. Wash it and eat it.
I like dewilson's solution - eat the sticker. It probably provides fibre.

I share your pain, I've been having a devil of a time getting them off all my grapes.

My antennae are up. This one will be very witty or very wild.

You heard it here first.

Welcome to the forum Mr. Heffner.

This is an overtly tacky thread. Sticker shock indeed.

Again - this is misleading.

If it is a 5-digit code that starts with a 9, it is CERTIFIED Organic. A 4-digit code starting with 3 or 4 MIGHT be organic, but it's not certified. It's officially "conventionally grown." If it's a 5-digit label beginning with an 8 then it is CERTIFIED GMO.

What this actually means:
There are some places where the 8 in front is not required by law. In that case, you won't know if it's GMO unless they have reason to specify. Organic doesn't mean pesticide-free. It means free of UNAPPROVED pesticides. There are pesticides that are approved.

In addition - as I said in my previous post - organic means the farmer at the farm where the piece of fruit came from, didn't use any unapproved pesticides. However, that does not mean that the farmer a mile away upwind didn't spray HIS stuff with unapproved pesticides. It doesn't mean the bees that pollinate the flora on the organic farm, have only pollinated using exclusively organic plants. It doesn't mean a squirrel didn't scurry around the non-organic neighbor's garden, grab some nuts, and plant them in the organic nut farm garden (ask me why I have lemon balm and a maple tree growing in my herb garden).

And conventionally farmed produce absolutely can be organic. It just means they never got the certification and therefore are not allowed to use that designation.


Summary: just because the label says something, doesn't mean the product is what you think it is. With the singular exception of GMO. If the sticker says it's GMO, then it is, with no special qualifications.

a produce manager once told me when I complained about the stickers that they had tried using less sticky stickers but people would peel them off and put them on more expensive apples or plums or whatever i mean can you believe what some people will do to save ten cents?