How to clean waxed apples?

People are constantly innovating in food preservation technology, and traditional preservation technology has not died. For example, waxing is often used to preserve apples. However, eating waxed apples directly can be harmful to your health. Therefore, the wax must be washed off before eating apples. Let’s take a look at how to clean waxed apples.

How to Identify Waxed Apples:

When choosing waxed fruits, you can wipe the surface of the fruit with your hands or a napkin. If you can wipe off a light red layer, it is likely to be industrial wax. It is not easy to distinguish edible wax and industrial wax with the naked eye. Fruits should be washed with salt water before eating, or simply peeled before eating.

How to Clean Waxed Apples

1. Salt cleaning method: After soaking the apples in water, put a little salt on the skin. Then hold the apples with both hands and rub them gently back and forth. The dirt on the surface can be rubbed off quickly. Then rinse it with water and you can eat it with confidence. The principle of this cleaning method is to utilize the small particles of salt to enhance friction, and salt itself has a disinfecting effect.

2. Toothpaste cleaning method: Don’t feel disgusted when putting toothpaste on an apple. You don’t know how much toothpaste you consume when brushing your teeth every day. Applying toothpaste on the surface of an apple as a cleaner is also a very useful method because the active agent in the toothpaste can easily pick up dirt on the surface of the apple.

3. Hot water washing method: Washing apples with hot water is also a good method. This way it is easy to wash off the preservatives on the apple skin, so that the washed fruit can be eaten with confidence.

4. Cleaning with special products: There are some special fruit and vegetable cleaning products on the market. Chemical detergents such as "fruit and vegetable cleaner" and physical cleaning methods such as "Clean Apple" can thoroughly clean. Comparing the two different cleaning methods, physical cleaning is of course more recommended without having to worry about chemical residues.