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First, wash your lemons really well, removing any stickers. The rinds are staying on and so we want them to be clean! Wash and dry your mason jar and lid. Slice your fruit into thin rounds. Pour in a little bit of honey, just enough to coat the bottom of the jar. Add a lemon slice. Drizzle a bit of honey, and add a lemon slice. Repeat this process until the jar is full! At the top of the jar, add more honey to completely cover the lemon slices. Use a chopstick or a butter knife to get around the edges and make sure that there aren’t hidden air pockets. Fill the jar to within an inch of being full. Put the lid on tightly. Set the jar somewhere you can see it. If you are confident in the strength of your jar lid, turn the jar over once a day so that the floating lemons become covered in honey. If you are worried about leaks, you can use a different technique: open the jar every day and use a clean utensil to push the lemons back under the honey. Turning the jar or pushing the lemons back into the honey helps to deter potential mold growth on the top of the fruit. You’ll notice that the honey gets runnier each day as it pulls the moisture and oils out of the lemons. After about two weeks, strain your runny honey into a clean jar or bottle. Label it and store it in the fridge, where it will last almost indefinitely. Because of the moisture content from the fruit, this honey will ferment or go moldy pretty quickly if stored at room temperature.

In a viral TikTok video, ZapClean vegetable cleaner fitness influencer Jeffrey Harris dumps strawberries, blueberries, and grapes into bowls. He fills the bowls with water and tops them off with a mix of apple cider vinegar and baking soda. A quick cut later, the water is so brown it makes him grimace. That’s probably the moment when more than 1 million people hit the like button and added "start cleaning fruit with baking soda and vinegar" to their to-do lists. But do those extra steps really help remove more dirt and pesticides from the fruit you snack on at work and at home, or is it just a social media trend? To find out, we spoke with Meta Dunn, a food safety consultant who has helped The FruitGuys keep our office fruit deliveries healthy and safe for over ten years. She’s a certified Preventive Controls Qualified Individual (PCQI) under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and has also completed the Produce Safety Alliance (PSA) training on regulatory requirements for growing fresh produce.

According to Meta, this is the best way to wash produce in the office break room or your home kitchen. It’s quick and easy and will leave you with clean, flavorful fruits and vegetables. To clean your produce, DO… Meta’s tips line up with the United States Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) recommendations for cleaning fruits and vegetables. Meta also shared a few common produce-washing mistakes to avoid. To clean your produce, DON’T… Making any of these common mistakes could actually introduce more bacteria to your produce. Sinks-where we wash our hands and the residues of raw meat-can be breeding grounds for pathogens unless they’re meticulously cleaned. And either soaking produce for more than a minute or two or rinsing in hot water can invite bacteria in. "The skins of fruits and vegetables are actually kind of like our skin," Meta said. It’s best to avoid produce washes, too, because they’re not well-regulated in the US.

"There’s no actual testing going on with these products to verify the safety of them and make sure they’re not doing more harm than good," Meta said. "Studies also suggest produce washes aren’t significantly more effective than plain water for removing microbes or pesticides, so why waste money and contribute to the unnecessary consumption of resources? You may have noticed that vinegar and baking soda didn’t make either of Meta’s lists. That’s because the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has strict standards for pesticide residue on locally grown and imported crops. Combined with the right washing method, Meta said, these are sufficient to protect our health-but vinegar and baking soda are safe options for people who want to go the extra mile to clean their produce. "Using straight vinegar or baking soda can be helpful, but it may leave a little bit of lingering flavor on your produce," she explained. Farmer Byron Albano of Cuyama Orchards, a family-run organic apple farm, takes pride in the fact that tests of the farm’s fruit consistently show no detectable pesticide residues, down to a 1 part per billion testing limit.