Question
Ace, America asked:
How safe is the wax on apples? I end up eating up to
a kilo of apples some days. What
bugs me is the wax that covers the
apples, to supposedly preserve them. How safe is this? What actually
is it? Answer
This was answered by Yor_on on our forum...
"If you walk into an orchard, pick an apple from a
tree, rub that apple on your shirt, you'd notice that it shines, and
that's because you've just polished off the natural waxes and also
yeasts that the apple produces in order to protect its high water
content. And without that wax, fruits and vegetables would end up going
all dry and nasty.
After they've been harvested, apples get washed and
brushed to remove leaves and field dirt, and then they get packed in
cartons for shopping to your market. This process removes some of the
fruits original wax coating that actually protects the fruit.
So the apple packers re-apply a commercial grade
wax, and one pound of that wax can cover as many as 160,000 pieces of
fruit. So in other words, two drops of it on each apple. The waxes
have been used on fruits since the 1920s. they're all made from natural
ingredients certified by the US Food and Drug Administration as safe to
eat and they come from natural sources such Carnauba that wax, the
leaves of the Brazilian palm, Candelia wax, which is derived from a
reed-like dessert plant of the genus euphorbia and also food grade
shellac."
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