How to distinguish waxed fruit and how to clean it
4hw.org: Fruit waxing has been exposed for several years, but it is still common in recent years. Many bad businesses, in order to make the fruit look more attractive, make beauty for the fruit, put a layer of wax on the skin, improve the color of the fruit, and prevent water evaporation. However, when eating, there are great hidden dangers to our health, so how to distinguish waxed fruit and waxed fruit How to clean it?
At present, there is no relevant standard test method. Generally speaking, the film on the surface of the peel of fruits coated with edible wax will be thinner and brighter; the industrial wax coating is mostly manually operated by illegal personnel, and the coating will be relatively thicker. In addition, industrial waxes are colored. Wipe hard with paper towels, which will be dyed. If the color is particularly bright, only use hand wipe will fade the fruit, it is best not to buy. The above is only my experience. In real life, for the sake of safety, consumers can use warm salt water to wash fruits and then peel them for consumption, which can be more reassuring.
Pick fruits and choose 'plain' ones
Industry insiders suggest that when buying fruit, you should not only focus on the fruits that sell well, but also buy more fruits that look 'plain'. Citizens can identify whether the fruit is waxed by naked eyes. If the skin color of the fruit is very bright and shiny, it is likely to be waxed. Experts remind the public that when buying oranges, especially navel oranges, they should choose normal colors and look at the skin pores. Good oranges have more skin pores, which are rough to touch, while poor quality oranges have less skin pores, which are relatively smooth to touch. In appearance, the dyed orange is particularly bright red, and the unstained one is pure orange. The fruit stall owner said that to select the navel orange, we should first observe whether the color of the navel orange is uniform, and then knead it to feel whether the pulp is full. 'try not to buy the one with too red color. '
There are three kinds of wax on the peel
First, the fruit wax on the surface of the fruit itself; second, the artificial edible wax on some high-grade fruits. This' artificial fruit wax 'is mostly extracted from crabs, shells and other crustaceans, which is harmless to the body; the third is that illegal hawkers use industrial wax to wax fruits, in which mercury and lead may penetrate into the pulp through the peel. Only fruits waxed with inferior industrial wax are harmful to health. When buying fruit, wipe the fruit surface with a paper towel. If you can wipe off a light red layer, it may be industrial wax. It's better not to buy this kind of fruit.
How to clean it
It is not necessary to peel to remove the wax from the peel. There are other good methods that are not only nutritious, but also easy to use. The first is hot water. Wax melts when it is hot, and a wax film floats on the surface of water. Just pour out the hot water in time and don't let the wax paste on the peel again. Secondly, wash with salt or loofah pulp. Wax texture is soft, salt particles are small, washing effect is more thorough than loofah pulp.
In this reminder, the general public, if it is the local fruit season without preservative treatment, generally will not wax. However, anti season fruits and high-grade fruits that need long-distance transportation are basically waxed in consideration of preservation, so it's better to use hot water for scalding, scrubbing or peeling before eating.
If there is wax on the fruit, if you want to wash it thoroughly, you can wash it with hot water, so that the wax can melt, and then rub it with salt or loofah pulp, and finally wash it several times under clear water to remove the wax on the peel. Or go to the mall to buy a special fruit cleaner to wash. If you don't want to do this, you can peel off the fruit skin, so you don't worry about the wax eating into your stomach.