How to make your own fruit and vegetable wash

Store bought fruit and vegetables are often covered in pesticides, dirt and germs. But don’t worry you can easily remove all of this by making your own fruit and vegetable spray to clean them up ready for eating.

Fruit and Vegetable wash

What you’ll need:

1/2 cup of apple cider vinegar
1/2 cup lemon juice
1 cup of water
spray bottle

Method:

Combine the apple cider vinegar, lemon juice and water in a spray bottle and shake to combine.
When you buy fruit or veg, spray lightly with wash and leave on for 30 seconds (for soft skinned fruit e.g. berries) to 1 minute and then rinse.
Your fruit and vegetables are ready for eating or storing.
Keep your spray in the fridge and it will last a month.

What a quick and easy way to clean your fruit and vegetables!

How do you clean your fruit and vegetables? Any tips to share? Please add your comment below.

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23 Comments

- - meedee said
  - 09 Jul 2021
    11:27 am
Its such a worry that all this stuff is on our food

- - mom94125 said
  - 03 Sep 2016
    5:43 pm
i just wash them under the tap and i thought that was good enough. great spray idea though

- - ella12 said
  - 17 Aug 2016
    4:17 pm
oh gee wow, what a fabulous idea!

- - mom134803 said
  - 02 Aug 2016
    3:41 am
Great recipe ! When I run out of the ingredients or to make it a bit cheaper I sometimes wash it just in a solution of white vinegar with water, but I try to make sure to have the ingredients at home all the time.

- - Melissa89 said
  - 19 Jul 2016
    7:07 am
I simply rinse with water. I wasnt aware there was another way. I don’t have any little ones at home so I guess I would have done research prior. Great ‘recipe’, very easy to get your hands on these ingredients. Is there anything ACV can’t do?!

- - tessie said
  - 05 Jul 2016
    11:07 am
I just soak mine in water for about 5 minutes then wipe them dry. Can’t use the recipe because I’m allergic to lemons, juice and skin.

- - Missey Grace said
  - 03 Jul 2016
    11:36 pm
This is a fantastic formula, Jessica.
I usually leave fruits in the basin filled with water for 5 minutes then rinse them in runny water.

- - mom70876 said
  - 02 Jul 2016
    9:04 pm
wow, how many people don’t wash their fruit and veg before eating it. Scary.

- - mom101628 said
  - 01 Jul 2016
    10:55 pm
Thanks for this tip – I’ll be trying it soon.

- - mom19782016 said
  - 08 Jun 2016
    8:41 am
Does it remove all the pesticides? Wow, great tip thanks!

- - hopefullyheidi said
  - 04 Jun 2016
    11:39 pm
Seems a lot easier than what we did the other night. Quite a few of our store bought apples were “waxy” so we soaked them in a sink of water and apple cider and malt vinegar.

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  - 04 Jun 2016
    9:12 pm
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- cherz replied
  
  05 Jun 2016 , 6:15 pm
  Seriously what has this got to do with washing fruit and veggies.
- - sharna_booth_weinrowski said
  - 04 Jun 2016
    7:42 pm
Thank you for the helpful tips!

- - BellaB said
  - 04 Jun 2016
    3:58 pm
Thank you, this is very helpful.

- - mum4107 said
  - 04 Jun 2016
    2:51 pm
Thank you very much. What a great idea

- - mom71820 said
  - 04 Jun 2016
    12:44 pm
Fantastic, thank you! I know someone asked about this not long ago, I hope she sees this ☺️

- - mom160421 said
  - 03 Jun 2016
    10:24 pm
Great tip Jessica. Other methods I’ve read and tried involve soaking the fruit (like apples and pears) in a solution of vinegar and water for an hour or more. Who has time for that? And it’s not suitable for all types of fruit and vegetables. I will give your method a try.
- mom90758 replied
  
  04 Jun 2016 , 1:11 pm
  Yes, this method is a lot quicker indeed!!
- - Nas01 said
  - 03 Jun 2016
    7:29 pm
Great tip. I usually wash them just the tap but I’ll be giving this a go.

- - mom90758 said
  - 03 Jun 2016
    5:50 pm
It’s really amazing!! Easy to store in the fridge and use.
I wonder if the taste of berries will change because of this wash.

- - mom93821 said
  - 03 Jun 2016
    4:39 pm
Interesting, usually just wash them in fresh cold water.