The TRUTH About Fruit Wax
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- We answer all your questions about fruit and vegetable wax: What is the coating made from? Why is it even on there? Is it harmful to you?
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I wanted to mention that I ran some experiments to see if different homemade solutions could effectively get the wax off of produce. I wasn't satisfied with the results, so I'm testing further. If you have any tried and true tips -- leave them below! I'll share my own results soon.
Chitosan is the easiest wax. It can used as organic fungicide and repellent most bugs for fruit care treatment. For post harvest it can extend shelf life 5 days for freshly harvest mango, 9 days on Pitaya/Dragon Fruit, 18 days on snake fruit, up to 2 months on apples at room temprature
Chitosan devided in 2 types, Industrial and Food Grade. Both can be used to coat/wax our fruit. Food grade one is 2-3 times price than industrial. Usually the food grade one, applied for thin skin fruit or fruits that we use to eat the whole without peeling it skin like guava, rose apples, lemon and lime (can be extend the shelf life about up to 6 month if green harvest). Industrial chitosan used for peeled fruit like jack fruit, mangosteen, etc
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To get off organic wax use vinegar, to get off inorganic wax use any citric acid
to remove wax in a natural non chemical way ..... squeeze a ripe lemon's juice into 1 liter of warm water and rinse the fruit you want to clean with it. the lemon is a natural oil and wax stripper without the nasty side effects of chemicals... natural vinegar will also help but vinegar leaves a slight after taste that you need to rinse again after removing the wax.
This a large part of why i started to grow my own veggie and fruit
Hell yeah lashonda. Homegrown is always the best
Local organic for the world
Wish we could all do that
I'm more worried about my health when digesting it than how pretty and shiny it's is
APEEL is a new coating with metals in it and they are using ingredients that are full of metals that do not wash off.
@@quantumreach3388 Also putting the APEEL coating onto fruit and vegetables takes away 15 percent of the nutritional value and Bill Gates makes money cause that is his patten.
Most underrated channel and presenter on RUclips..
Thank you!!
@baggabliss agree to disagree. 👍
baggabliss your dumb
Yes 😍
@@TrueFoodTV You're absolutely gorgeous!
I love that you get straight to the point. Unlike those other clickbait videos. Very underrated channel.
Thanks for making the distinction between conventional and organic food and the processes that are involved in getting them to the grocery store. You’re awesome.
My pleasure!
Fruit wax is for long distance produce.
The best option is to buy refrigerated produce that does not need fruit wax.
The only safety is in growing your own food💯
The only one?
But the fruits and vegetables create chemicals on their own in order to prevent bugs from eating them, how is growing them on your own going to prevent this?
Yesenia Robles organic vs manmade 🤷♂️
Mary Jane 😂
Mary Jane it’s all makeup though. 😂. I trolled her profile after your comment to see.
For years I kept a worm composter in my classroom. Students would feed and care for the worms and learned so much in the process. One day a student discovered some 'trash' in the composter - a huge surprise. It was actually the remaining plastic coating from an apple half; the worms had eaten the apple but wouldn't touch the plastic, which was stretchy and crinkly much like produce bags at the store.
i watched this video and felt motivated....my friends saw this video and felt motivated....my neighbours saw this and were motivated...we rent a projector in a big field and my village people saw this and felt motivated....thank you so much for this video. may god bless you. Thanks
Sweet Vuvuzela what kind of village do you live in? I'm curious!
She is the best presenter on RUclips channel... I follow true food just because of Nicole Jolly ... Keep up with work ..
So long story short you have to wash them before you eat them raw.
yeah, but you have to think , most fruits and veggies are pretty porous, you can see the pores on a lemon peel. THat stuff has to be soaking in more than a quick wash can remove.
Tried soaking a orange in hot water once to see if the wax would come off. It does but took a few minutes and doubt all of it even came off at the end.
With the possible exception of morphaline (and even then, lots of countries disagree), there is absolutely nothing in the video that suggests there's any reason to fear the coating. You should still wash your food before you eat it, but that's in order to wash away potentially harmful bacteria or parasites. The wax itself is totally harmless.
David Enrique even the video says morphaline is found in insignificant amounts in the wax
@sheldon pereira It can be.
There's a saying in medicine- the poison is in the dose. At high enough doses, pretty much EVERYTHING can kill you. Too much oxygen? deadly. Too much vitamin A? you're dead. Too much water? you'll be swimming with the fishes.
Conversely, almost every chemical is totally harmless at low enough doses. You could add a tiny amount of cyanide to every single drink you ever drink for the rest of your life, and you will be totally fine. Hell, your own body is constantly making countless different potions, from formaldehyde to the active ingredient in bleach, chemicals that will pretty much kill all organisms (not just fungi). That's why simply stating that a food contains a certain chemical is utterly meaningless. The real question is what chemicals are found at sufficiently large quantities to have any effects, and whether those effects' risks outweigh the benefits.
We're now fortunate enough in the UK to get unwaxed lemons, limes and oranges at most decently sized supermarkets, so i'll typically go for them. I have no regular farmer's markets around here so I sorta rely on my local stores. I know in some countries it would be strange to use wax, but we just can't grow citrus properly anywhere here, so it has to be imported.
Fruit in the uk is crap now taste less
I have an autoimmune disease and I notice that whenever I travel to countries within the EU and even countries in South America, my autoimmune disease never flares up. However as soon as I’m back in the USA, I have flare ups immediately after eating.
What is your diseases sir i have microscopic colitis after i came to the united states in 2016 i got that in 2018 after 2 years
Correct!! After I learned from a Canadian study from the University of Montreal that citrus fruits that are coated in a substance that is known to cause cancer I am not taking chances on my health. I choose organic as much as I can!
Don’t ever stop making your incredible videos. They’re very educating and they debunk so many myths that people believed for ages.
Thank you! Will do!
I had some store bought apples on my desk. After four months they still looked like new. I think it’s sketchy.
I live in Brazil, one of the countries with the highest content of agrotoxic components in the population's organism. Also the current Federal Government is approving each year, many more chemicals, with lots of carcinogenic compounds...
The information and knowledge about the chemicals we're using is very important, It's great that you brought the opinion from an organic producer on how he feeds his children...
It would be cool to make a video on how the pesticides and other chemical products pollutes water and soil, also how it can affect the health of farmers.
Thanks for all the information!!!
This world is crazy , i thought eating healthy food is enough to be healthy but its far from that 😡
Hi :) I was wondering when your organic episode you mentioned at the end of this video will come out? Love your channel!! Thank you.
I love it when you add the details about Fungicides and Emulsifiers with direct feedback from an actual fruit producer. Slow poising of the body with all the different chemical intake of regular fruits and veggies.
It's always concerned me about grating waxed orange and lemon zest .
Thanks
Thank you! You are the best presenter. Teach us what to do, or alternatives, especially with the cost of living skyrocketing
I use beeswax soaked cotton linen as a reusable lid on my bowls and jars. Breathes and is antibiotic.
“Fun-g-eye”
Funjeye
Funjie
Yah, that triggered me seriously, must be an American thing.
I cant...fun guy
@@wyldcherry Heehee I'm a fungeeee
I like her english pronunciation skills. Very clear, concise, and the words are pronouce as exactly what it is in the cambridge english dictionary.
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With some vegetables, I can understand why they use wax. With the ongoing war on plastic, a local supermarket recently stopped wrapping their cucumbers in it. The cucumbers on offer are now shrivelled, dry and awful, because I guess they didn't realise they still have to retain that moisture somehow. Citrus have natural oils that are inherently fungicidal, so wax isn't necessary for those in my opinion. Beeswax sounds like a great option, due to the natural antibacterial substances that bees use to keep their hives clean being present in the wax.
Your videos are on the point and informative. Love them!
Red Wine has a lot of Nitrates. Gives me eye aches after one glass.
I have washed EVERY citrus fruits, Bananas, Vegetable,....well....everything, with warm water, soap & vegetable brush, since so started cooking at 13. Even then, I could feel a sticky substance, sometimes waxy, on the fruit or veggie. And I didn't want to peel or slice that substance into my food. My husband loved this informative episode! Thanks!
Love this information, great video.
I began a Certified organic vegetable farm 4 years ago with zero experience, best decision I ever made.
There are so many benefits to growing your own, for community, planet and of course to health. Eat clean and local as much as you can.
that's why im quite concern when i use lemon peel zest for cakes/baking.
Just wash it.
@@AaaaNinja u can't wash away wax, try wash an apple as much as u could, then use a fruit knife and scrap out the wax, tons of it.
If you live in the UK, you can buy unwaxed lemons easily.
Otherwise you can try washing it with warm water and the emulsifier they add should also help wash it off I guess
And you can add that Morpholine is used in all coatings in the US and Canada, even for apples where you eat the peel... It has been banned here in Europe more than 30 years ago!
I recently took a bite out of a apple that looked fine outside but was rotting already from the inside. Imagine my shock! I believe this is due to the wax also?!
AHHHHHHH
Yet another very interesting video that has brought up US/UK differences. In the UK, the majority of citrus are labelled ‘unwaxed’; certainly all organic citrus is unwaxed. We are also brought up to wash fruit when we buy it because it’s rarely coated. Our apples, for example, are not shiny. Plums usually have their bloom still on them, as do other fruits, but I guess it’s true that the shelf life is shorter without artificial coatings. Do you refrigerate most fruit in the US? Here only bananas are kept in a fruit bowl full time; most fruit is kept in the fridge to preserve it until a few days before eating where it’s transferred to room temperature. Looking forward to the organic video as I’ve been brought up eating organic.
Always love hearing from you, Thomas. It's true -- the variety of unwaxed produce in the UK is far greater than here in the US, and it may be a reflection of that tighter policy toward chemical coatings. Even with all the coatings, we still tend to keep our fruit in the fridge until eating.
I live in London and more and more I see waxed fruit: very shiny apples and very shiny tangerine even costed with a synthetic orange colour! As I eat lots of fruits, it breaks my heart to see how they ruin it with chemicals and I don’y buy any if this. I stay away from shiny fruit.
Great Video, thank you for the info!!
Lots of great information!! Thank you for sharing!!
I still like picking my veggies and fruits fresh from my own garden.
@@ericolens3 Basil can be planted in a deep container (12 in deep). It is the easiest thing to grow. There is still time. From seed or cuttings (rooted in water). They reseed easily too. Just remember to water.
Me: An apple a day keeps the doctor way
Doctor: No More!
What about fruits that we remove the peel before eating, such as oranges, lemons, tangerines, etc.? Does it harm our health? Should we stop eating it? Thank you very much for this valuable information, which I did not know before. I am honored to follow you.
Thank you for this informative video, 4 years on were still catching up, especially now with the new forevers sprays being used which for me have a very low A-peel !!!.
Nicole, I never knew anything about fruit coatings. Thank you for this episode. Your videos are always educational. Besides, it's always nice to listen to you :-)
I’m a little scared to buy food now lol. Now I’m going to grow my own.
self grown food tastes way better, fresher, and so much more energy. also, try researching what wild plants are edible in your area.
@@Christopher-be1qc It's also healthier. Most (if not, all) big agriculture companies deplete their soil of nutrients when they grow the same foods year round without a healthy permaculture habitat. Permaculture is the way. You need a fully autonomous ecosystem to maximize the health of the plants and, in turn, your body when you consume them.
Check out baker creek seed catalog I order all my seeds from there ! They have so many different things and free shipping ! My gardens are beautiful !
I would like to hear/read of a simple, reliable method of washing off the waxes. Do you have some guidance there?
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Thank you for the video .. Do you have any idea to make video about how to make plant based coating?
Very nice topic Nicole.. Looking forward to learn about Organic produce from you..
This is so incredibly interesting!!! Thank you so much for sharing!!
A new anxiety has been unlocked
The production quality of all your informative videos is just amazing. Idk if you have a team or you produce it all by yourself. Mad respect for all your hard work. 👍👌
This is coming from a Hollywood Visual Effects Artist.
Does washing off the artificial coating avoid ingesting the substance, or are they seeped inside the fruit? If so, is there any best practices for washing?
I always thought the powder stuff on fruit was natural yeast. Good video
I LOVED the way you talked about this. Many people I know are very misinformed about subjects like these.
It's chemicals. I rather it rotten faster and look dull than to put those chemicals in my body
All your videos are very informative and I just love watching them😍😍pls make videos on growing of more diff fruits and vegetables😊😊
Great video. Thanks for the info. Very interesting ! Always wondered what was on the outside of my fruits and vegetables.
Thank you for uploading this important video and saving lives🙂
Thank you for all of the information!
Hey Nicole could you make a video about indoor plants.like how to grow them in the best possible way? Common diseases for indoor plants and how to treat them? Can we grow plants without the rooting hormones, is there any natural method to get the best?
I have a question you know when it's sprayers come on when you're at the market around the fruit is that just water being sprayed on ? or is that got the wax solution in it?
Buy local food, organic would be better, that's how we can cut down the amount of chemicals you mentioned and support the farmers at the same time!
Totally agree !!!
Grocery stores where I live stock nothing but local food. Except for items that cannot be produced locally. I think this is the same for everywhere....
I was expecting you will also tell how to avoid them or how to wash fruits to remove that bad chemicals. Is there any way to get rid of this bad chemical ?
Um....was this supposed to reassure me? Now I’m wishing I were rich so I could just have my produce shipped directly to me from the farms.
There was a lot of information presented on the types of wax, but very little (in comparison) presented about the emulsifiers and fungicides. I feel like the two were just glossed over and presented as "chemicals = bad."
I'm usually very critical of people who go "chemicals = bad" since literally basically everything is made of chemicals. What matters isn't so much whether the chemicals are 'natural' or synthetic, but the dosage you get.
I'd really appreciate if there was a follow up concerned about the specifics of the fungicides and emulsifiers. :)
It's an interesting video either way, so keep up the good work!
I second this.
The main concern is the lack of regulations, many companies can just do their own biased research and the FDA will approve of it. Also many synthetic substances are known to bioaccumulate in bodies and the environment, and we don’t know what the long term consequences are and how they can be affecting our health and the environment.
Jasper Buan I third it and realize that the info may not be out there.
I know I’m spoiled by living in California but I try to buy local, because even here things can be out of season. It’s also encouraged new foods, seasonal meals. It’s not perfect but i
Whole and local.
jackfruit episode? just found a store locally selling some, its quite a delicious fruit, and it has edible seeds we cook and eat.
the tag on the jackfruit says the company is coast tropical, the jackfruits say product of mexico, if you wanted to ask your grocer to buy some. i want to contact them as to when the freshest time of year is to buy jackfruits.
Wow thank you for this information ! So if you peal the fruit or vegetable is the inside free of the chemicals ?
Awesome information! Thank you.
I'm new to watching your channel, and love the content. I am using the information to learn about some of the new vegetables I want to try growing in my garden.
I used to work on an organic farm. And helped the farmer go through the process of being certified organic. I can tell you the process is not perfect and has many loop holes. While not all farmers take advantage of these and are instead dedicated to providing a quality and wholesome product, there are still those that do making it to be that you can't always trust the organic label. Because of this it is still best recommended to buy local from a trusted source. Thankfully there are changes being made to the organics regulations to eliminate some of these loopholes and provide more reliable and quality products to stores.
Keep learning and growing and cooking fellow foodies.
One of the organic sources: "candelilla", is unbelievable hard to farm, it's still a very misundestood plant.
As a molecular biologist and food scientist, I am a firm supporter of foods that aren't "organic" (as well as GMO foods) because I know the science behind them.
I really enjoy your videos, so I just want to say that if you'll do a video on "oragnic" and "non-organic" foods, PLEASE include the insights of credible scientists
I specifically choose food that doesn't say "non gmo" even if it'sade from a crop that doesn't have a gmo variety yet. The anti gmo movement drives me crazy because there's no solid fact.
One thing I will say is that there is a concern about lack of diversity within a crop which I understand.
How to know what ingredients were used in each produce?
MintArcade she listed them. Try watching the video again. If you are worried buy organic.
thank you! You answered a lot of my questions.
I'm so glad!
@@TrueFoodTV Me too 😌
New to your channel. This video and the one about olive oil were great. Very informative and entertaining. Thank you!
Great episode! Thanks for the explanation. Looking forward to the organics video.
thank you for this information. I like the way you talk.my question is , how do we have to do to remove this wax ? wash it?
I want to know if I can use Wax on tomato 🍅 preservation two months
Hi Nicole thanks so much for the info. Always great to have you around. Do you know if any of these coatings are derived from animal fats?
Thank you for keeping me informed with facts!
YES! Looking forward to the "Organic" video!!!
Hoping "Organic" also means post-harvest:practices are ethical and safe for human consumption and good health.
Organic food production starts with an organ player in the farmers field.
Thank you for telling us. I never knew, but it sounds typical of the FDA.
Just like jellies quit using pectin, which I noted because my nails didn't grow morelike they normally do.
Which like Bama jelly, in the 70's, this might just be me, but like the apple jelly, it had more flavor in the 70's than modern time. Which it wouldn't surprise me if they changed using something cheaper, eitheir a supplier or ingredient.
Hi there,
Love your channel. I think, it is very informative!
If it is possible, can you make an episode of how to clean these waxed fruits and vegetables effectively?
Many thanks!!!!
Today's food looks increasingly scary, even organic food is suspect. Thanks for info 👍.
Love your informative videos! One thing I wonder about is the economics of transporting fresh produce. I also live on the East Coast of America and I recently bought red bell peppers that were from Denmark. I can't understand how it is economical to transport such an easily grown produce from Denmark instead of, say, Georgia or Louisiana. Southern US states could easily grow red bell peppers nearly all year long.
It's a topic I've often thought about myself. International shipping seems to be bonkers cheap -- you've heard, right, how fish might be caught somewhere like Iceland and it's cheaper to ship it to China for processing and then on to US groceries? I smell a topic for a future video!! Thanks for the recommendation.
@@TrueFoodTV Did you made that video? ???
Lots of thanks ma'am for this information
It's scary how trusting people are about their local grocery store corporations
How can I clean the wax of fruits and vegetables? Can it be done?
Thank you ... good information....
Loved it!
LOVED IT!
LOVED THIS VIDEO!
Thank you and greetings from Portugal.
P.S. - When possible, please do a video about carobs and carob trees! Thank you.
Thank you for all that you do!
Good information, but where can you buy wax less fruits and vegetables?
Do those chemicals absorb into the fruit?
Some does , some not. Usually fruit coat are food grade
@@sekenpolansky5008 and you're going to eat it anyway.
@@psychtank8681 food grade wax devided into inorganic and organic wax. For inorganic one even it is foodgrade but still suggested to wash it well before eat such as H2S on USA and Australian grapes, Inorganic wax (even FDA or USDA certified) on US Apples (Red Dell, Ambrossia, Granny Smith), Japan Apples (Sekaichi, Mutsu), Navel oranges. Organic wax such as chitosan, Bee Wax are edible wax. Ur feel free to rinse it or not. Usually for ready to bite fruit such as blueberry, raspberry, guava, pineapple, plum, etc
Fertilizers are contaminated with nitrates? Leafy greens are naturally high in nitrates?
I love what you're doing.!! Thank you.!! God bless you 🙂
are these waxes allowed in organic foods ?
Most of our stuff is not coated (EU), even things that come from other side of the world. And they last maybe less on the table, but it is better to take bit less and go to store again in few days.
@@bobsmith-ui8uw Even if there is overpay, it is minuscule. Thanks I prefer my fruits untainted by chemicals.
@@bobsmith-ui8uw what are you on about. What pax Americana got to do with fruit coating.
@@thepenguin11 Listen to your oncologist (Bob Smith). He wants you to eat the damn fruit, peel and fungicide and all! And people wonder why cancer is rampant ...coz the FDA and AMA approve!
@@bobsmith-ui8uw sick and stupid. People who are starving do NOT need your imported carcinogenic farm produce. What they need is real food, high in nutrition, like Moringa for example, which can be easily grown locally, you self-important, puppet of indiscriminate Capitalist profiteers!
I swear!! Why don't americans have a culture of food concious and humbleness ... is it really that difficult to make sure you eat your food before it spoils. I make it a point to eat the foods that will waste sooner, and don't mind going back for me when finished...my god, this is horrifying
Great video thanks 😃
Something so many of us never think about. Wax? And yet you bring it to life. Very well damn spoken and I am beyond deeply, impressed. What a great direction for your channel to grow. Such wonderful content! You glow Nicole. You are so very pretty. That dress is so beautiful. I’m human and you are shiny. 😬 So? What do you know about “organic”? Can’t wait to find out. ❤️
About the anecdote of the farmer
There seems to be a big misconception about the effects of certain chemicals. Just because a chemical prevents a piece of fruit from going bad, does not in any way mean that it is harmful to us. The same goes for pesticides. Just because certain chemicals kill bugs, does not mean they do the same to us. Take coffein for example. In nature, plants use it as an insectacide, killing any bugs that come across it, yet it has no harmful side effects in us, in normal doses. You do not fall over and die just because you take a sip of coffee.
Greetings from Costa Rica! Nice to hear you mention us.
I've been to Costa Rica. Lots of free fruit trees.
Thanks! Very well explained!
I always thought the one that they shipped is the natural wax. Oh so what your verdict: is it safe to digest or should we clean it before and how we do if we should then.
Great video, Quick one how safe or Organic is food grown in hydroponic farms