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Pity humanity. We've been eating fruits and vegetables for millennia, but only now are we told how to eat them right: after a liberal dousing with a commercial fruit-and-vegetable wash.
You've seen these products. Labels feature shining produce and claims such as "the taste nature intended."
The best-selling produce wash, Procter & Gamble's Fit, $4.99 for 8.5 ounces, is a mild soap solution. Heinz's Fruit &Vegetable Wash, $4.29 for 32 ounces, with "the natural cleaning power of vinegar," is not much more than vinegar, water, and flavoring. Arm & Hammer entered the market with its Pure Baking Soda, repackaged in a plastic shaker bottle, 89 cents for 12 ounces, that "naturally cleans fruits and vegetables." It's a little grittier and a lot more expensive than the basic box product.
Our taste testers compared grapes doused in each of five ...