I don’t. Unless I see dirt.
But haven’t been sick from germs or bacteria ever I think.
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After watching a lady lift up her skirt and pee where she was picking blueberries and then continuing to pick, yes I do now wash my fruit 
Tales of a grade 10 blueberry picker 
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I’m extremely careful to wash vegetables and I rinse meat off to remove as many of the exterior germs as I can as well (excluding ground meat).
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I was my spring onions but not much else.
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The girl named Lauren from the YouTube channel Living with schizophrenia didn’t wash her vegetables but she is so very pretty! But I really don’t want to make her paranoid. I don’t know if I’d have the guts to have that channel!
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I was eating grapes and realized it was grimey/specs of dirt half way into the bag.
I don’t know how I didn’t taste it or see it earlier.
Why don’t they have a sticker - beware - danger - wash your fruits.
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I eat a lot of produce. Every meal is mostly produce. I carefully scrub all of it even if it going to be cooked to the temperature of the sun. I owe it to my guests to give them the safest, cleanest ingredients in their meal. Not doing so is gross. Farmworkers use the fields as a restroom. Dirty, germy hands have been all over the produce from the fields to the workers at the grocery store and even the customers. Unless you want to put all of that in your mouth, I suggest you scrub your produce carefully. And if you eat meat, clean that as well.
Most of the time fruits look clean. They have to have gone through a cleaning process.
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I’m sorry, but you really need to take the few minutes it takes to wash your fruit and dry it as to avoid a possible contamination. A super good habit to get into is cleaning all your fruits and veggies when you get home from the store and before you put them away. If you do that, then you know you can grab whatever you want whenever you are hungry.
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I’m saying this in a motherly way, not a mean bossy way. Sorry, not to be rude.
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The packages that have a label that say “pre washed” are the ones that got washed. Otherwise u gotta wash it lol
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Thanks @Leaf.
It’s another thing to do. But i guess it’s better to be safe.
I’ve eaten things out of the trash before though.
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Yes I ■■■■■■■ wash all my fruits and vegetables.
I see strangers in the produce section touching and poking around at the produce with filthy hands.
I usually buy frozen fruits and veggies because of this reason
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It is better to be safe. You are quite lucky do have not gotten sick yet.
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Yes I wash them. Except some that I peel like banana or portugal.
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I’m…um…wait…what?
Hey @mangojuice something I just learned about bananas, apparently, they have a chemical on them to make them ripen. If you wash them when you get them home, they will last longer. That’s just what I heard. I don’t know if that’s helpful to you or not.
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I learned a trick to .ake strawberries, well any berry, last a LOT longer.
Submerge cleaned berries into very hot,not boiling, water for 30 seconds. The water should be just hot enough to make your skin red but not cook the berries.
It kills bacteria on the berries. I tried this and my berries last almost 2 weeks.
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I thought it was a typo!