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Lingua

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This is not a moan -I would genuinely like to know what I am eating. Does anyone here know what kind of grease they put on apples here? Is it wax? Even when I wash in boiling water and scrub some of these apples, they are still greasy. Are they safe to eat like this?
 
yup i know.my daughter wont eat them anymore.instead i get the fun bag of apples in tesco or lidl.
 
We grow our own apples. They last a good length of time.
An apple tree doesn't take up too much room.
 
By all accounts this is a hydrocarbon-based product or derivative used to add shine to the skin, make the fruit unattractive to insects and worms and slow down the ageing process.

Fruit peeler anyone?
 
Lingua said:
This is not a moan -I would genuinely like to know what I am eating. Does anyone here know what kind of grease they put on apples here? Is it wax? Even when I wash in boiling water and scrub some of these apples, they are still greasy. Are they safe to eat like this?
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Bought some apples in a non supermarket outlet. They had a smell of oil off them that you could also taste, so whatever it was on them had gone through the skin.
 
I worked picking oranges in Australia for a short while and the oranges went through a machine that added wax to their skin to make them tougher and better looking.
 
While I dont doubt there is something on the apples you buy, I also have apple trees and actually noticed when I picked some and left them in the fruit basket for a while, maybe week or so, they also got very shiny and greasy. I never put anything on my trees, very bad at minding them really but there was a great crop this summer so they were around for a while before I used them. Maybe it depends on the type of apple, mine were cooking apples but whatever it was on mnie it was definetly a natural occuring thing.
 
Lingua said:
This is not a moan -I would genuinely like to know what I am eating. Does anyone here know what kind of grease they put on apples here? Is it wax? Even when I wash in boiling water and scrub some of these apples, they are still greasy. Are they safe to eat like this?
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Most likely food grade paraffin wax which is edible (although not digestible - just passes through) and not harmful to humans.
 
KerryG said:
While I dont doubt there is something on the apples you buy, I also have apple trees and actually noticed when I picked some and left them in the fruit basket for a while, maybe week or so, they also got very shiny and greasy. I never put anything on my trees, very bad at minding them really but there was a great crop this summer so they were around for a while before I used them. Maybe it depends on the type of apple, mine were cooking apples but whatever it was on mnie it was definetly a natural occuring thing.
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I had that too except mine are eating apples. Like you, i'm very bad at looking after them but they seem to thrieve on neglect.
 
KerryG said:
Maybe it depends on the type of apple, mine were cooking apples but whatever it was on mnie it was definetly a natural occuring thing.
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I can't get over how expensive cooking apples are at the moment in the supermarkets. This year it's out with the boring looking flower shrub in the garden and in with the apple tree. Who knows where this might lead to....
 
SlurrySlump said:
I can't get over how expensive cooking apples are at the moment in the supermarkets. This year it's out with the boring looking flower shrub in the garden and in with the apple tree. Who knows where this might lead to....
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Surely not....you don't mean....self sufficiency !? :eek:
 
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