I want to link you to a fascinating post I read. It’s very detailed, very thoroughly researched and quite disturbing. The upshot is that the “wax” we have come to expect on produce hasn’t been “wax” for many years, but is now an edible (?) plastic applied to both organic and conventional produce to protect it from damage during shipping and microbial contamination.

Here is the post: Dude, That Isn’t Wax On Your Apple!

You might not be up to reading the entire thing, it is long and contains numerous links, especially to FDA articles which can be a real nightmare to decipher.

But the upshot is this: If you don’t grow it yourself, and you can’t get face-to-face with the farmer who grew it, you don’t know what is being applied to “protect you.” It might or might not wash off in veggie wash and it might or might not prove to be safe and health-supporting.

The number one goal of Local Nourishment is to encourage you to grow what you can, to source your food as close to your front door as possible, and to personally acquaint yourself with your food producers for what you purchase. I challenge you to take a list of the names of the films listed in realityblogger’s outstanding post to the produce manager of the stores you frequent and try to find out what is applied to your food. It may be he or she has no idea and has to do some research for him or herself. Take the same list to your farmers market (and by that I mean enforced producers market) and ask your farmer. I’ll bet he knows what he applies to your food, and I’ll double down that he or she will be happy to discuss it with you!

This post is part of Real Food Wednesday and Fight Back Friday.

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