Blog — remove wax from produce

Gleaming, sparkling apples so shiny you could ice skate on them. Inviting….or not? What’s underneath that brilliant surface may not be as healthy as you would like to thinks. On the road to your local store, produce travels and average of 1,500 miles just to get to you – meaning days, and sometimes weeks in transit. Producers often use wax to coat fruit and veggies to give them additional shelf life, so they make it to you ‘fresh’ and not wilted or spoiled in that timeframe. While the idea of eating wax on its own may cause you to lose...