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Apples are a common household staple. Many people will go to the store, buy a bunch of apples, and go home feeling like they have done something good for their family. Well, think again, because your store-bought apples may be covered with harmful wax.

Apples produce a natural wax, but many are covered by a food-grade wax so they can stay in storage for long periods of time. Some food-grade wax is made from petroleum products, and it is well known that petroleum is not good for the body.

So, what is a person to do? First off, try to buy all your apples from a farmer’s market or a local farm stand. The only wax you will find on those apples is the natural wax the fruit creates to seal in moisture. If you have to buy apples from the store, give them a good cleaning before eating them or serving them to your family. Actually, do this with all fruits and veggies you buy from a store. Food grade wax is put on most of them.

Finding Joy in My Kitchen suggests filling the sink with about 4 inches of lukewarm water and adding 1 tablespoon of both lemon juice and baking soda. Put the apples in the water and scrub them with a fruit or veggie scrub brush. Rinse them and pat them dry. This should remove most of the wax.

The video below shows wax falling off an apple. Check it out!

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Katherine Crofton is a mother and lead writer for the David Wolfe website. Her interests include overall family health, nature & animals, environmental issues, and culture. She worked as an English teacher in South Korea for four years and has spent time in Tanzania, South Africa, and Mexico.

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40 Responses

      • The Anti-Idiot Poster

        Are you going to pay for everyone to eat organic? Let me call myself a faggot before you call me one. I’ll call you a preachy little pussy with no science and an agenda – the most dangerous kind of asshole on the planet.

        • The Anti-Queer Post

          How rude, however I wouldn’t expect anything less from an admitted sub-human queer. Why would I pay for all these useless eaters to eat organic? They clearly don’t care they eat poison, so let them kill themselves off, why would I sustain their worthless lives? It’s quite true that modern science has found absolutely NONE of the following: a drag-king gene, a drag-queen gene, a gender queer gene, a gender fluid gene, a cannibalism gene, a beastiality gene, a necrophiliac gene, a transgender gene, a bisexual gene, a pedophilia gene, or a homosexual gene. What all these things DO have in common, however, is that they are exhibited in morally debased and depraved individuals! Then, of course, through the SOCIAL ENGINEERING through TV conditioning and other media-support of HOMOSEXUALITY, many children at an ever younger age are beginning to learn about the “joys and wonders” of homosexuality, AKA, why you should be “proud” of not knowing how to properly use your sexual organs. Homosexuals either DO NOT know HOW to use their sexual organs properly OR they are OUTRIGHT REJECTING the proper use for them; it CANNOT be both! And then, once you’re corrected, WHY do these sub-human faggots continue to ACT INCORRECTLY? This is because they do NOT comprehend how Members of Mankind procreate, simply because they are NOT Members of Mankind; they align themselves with the ANIMALS, the BEASTS that walk on 4-legs. You can hear them crying now, “BUT ANIMALS DO IT! ANIMALS DO IT! HOMOSEXUALITY IS EXHIBITED IN ANIMALS HERRR-DERRRRR THAT MUST MEAN I CAN BE LIKE DA ANIMALS!” You see? They admit they are Sub-Human, which is GREAT for US Members of Mankind because we have dominion and authority over the animals, and we should begin TREATING queers the way they WANT TO BE TREATED! LIKE ANIMALS! Animals do NOT have paying jobs, they do NOT own homes, they do NOT drive cars, they do NOT have social security numbers, and they DEFINITELY do NOT have National IDs or citizenship status; ALL these things should be revoked from EVERY homosexual and they should be administered Radio Frequency Identification Chips so that they may be placed into work brigades and will FINALLY be of some use to us.

          • Elizabeth Blackwell

            I’m gonna go out on a limb here and guess that you’re a Drumpf fan, defining yourself by your hatreds and having nothing positive going on. Why do you even bother? Who do you imagine you might ‘convince’ that what your sick mentality puts forth is valid? All the sickos are already with you, performing ritual cannibalism on the weekends and believing in talking snakes. GFY

    • Amanda M. Klee

      Even if you peel apples the chemicals are still in the apple. If its harmful to breath, it’s harmful to eat.

  4. Lee Levey

    It’s changing colour because you’re pouring boiling water on it. You’d change colour if someone poured boiling water on you. It’s called science. What qualifications/ evidence do you have to support your claim that the wax gives you cancer?

      • Anj

        You are just and Idiot aren’t you? What happens to wax when heat is applied? IT MELTS! It don’t change color! If it was wax you would be able to see it melt off! Why would you eat the apple with out washing it first? Do you know how many people have touched it! I would be more worried about germs than this magical “wax” you speak of.

        • Rj Dieken

          Don’t forget, those nasty pills, make his opinion as valid as yours…because remember if you don’t know shit, be shit…it’s a valid opinion in our society if you just express it with anger or indignation you don’t need silly facts.

          I’m sure if it’s NOT the wax that apples actually produce naturally, that they don’t choose a poison wax — because the cost basis for lots of food grade waxes are about even.

    • dianestephenson

      It doesn’t take boiling water, simply wash in a natural fruit and veggie wash and you will get the same result. All non-organic apples are waxed to preserve them for storage.

  6. Anj

    Is there really wax on fruits and vegetables?
    Dr. Joe Kemble: Yes – the apple is one of the fruits that produces its own wax. Many other fruits produce wax such as plums, pears, etc. The natural wax produced by the apple serves several vital roles. This natural wax:
    helps the apples resist moisture loss,
    enhances fruit firmness, and
    slows down the natural degradation of the apples.
    Remember, apples are alive even after they are picked and will continue to live, provided they have the sufficient resources and an acceptable environment. The waxy coating produced by the apple and found on its skin protects it. The waxy coating can appear milky sometimes, but if you rub it gently, you can actually get it to it shine.

  8. Jeff

    The wax that apples are coated with is polyethylene. A polymer made from ethylene gas, itself created from ethane (a component of natural gas). It is very inert, which is what makes it an ideal food additive. It is not chemically active as a preservative would be and provides only a physical barrier to oxygen permission.

    For the record I am an organic/non-GMO eating crunchy dad who is also a chemical operations engineer who works in a polyethylene plant.

      • Jeff

        I’m afraid you would be mistaken. Low molecular weight polymers (a.k.a. plastics) are sold as synthetic waxes. These are sprayed hot onto apples at act as a oxidation barrier to keep the apple from spoiling longer.

  9. Mackenzie Phillips

    theres literally more proof that the natural wax on these apples inhibits cancer, than there is that it causes cancer, people need to do their damn research, inb4 i get called a faggot

  11. odinsleep

    wax does NOT cause cancer.

    period.

    what idiot came up with this ? the sky is falling, for proof i made a home video !!

  12. Diana Campkin Vickerson

    i washed mine with vinegar and water but could not get the white crap off so i through in garbage looked like something that should be in garbage

    • Madelyn Lannan

      I soak mine with Vinegar and Baking Soda for 30 mins, then with my hands rub the apples as much as I can. Then I put into a clean water basin, and rinse 3 times

  14. Edi Matzel

    I would say this video is hitting the nail on the head because you are all talking about it. Maybe we should be arguing and calling each other names over who was stupid or wise enough to watch yet another video.

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