05/11/2026
You should be washing your melons, bananas, lemons, mangoes and avocados, even though you don’t eat the peel.
🫧 Fruit fly larvae can hang out on the outside of produce and the last thing I want is bringing that into my kitchen 😭🪰
🤚Produce gets handled by SO many people before it gets to your kitchen. And I’ve seen those sneezy grocery store shoppers… I just personally feel better rinsing it first. Even if you’re not eating the peel, your knife cuts through it and drags whatever’s on the outside straight into the fruit or veggie. Dirt, bacteria, residue… all transferred right inside.
🌱 It can actually help some produce last longer because you’re catching soft spots, sticky residue, moldy areas, or damaged fruit earlier before it spreads to the rest.
🧽 If you prep produce ahead of time, washing the outside first helps keep your cutting boards, counters and containers cleaner too.
It takes maybe 10 seconds but it can save you from fruit fly headaches, wasted produce, and having to deep clean your kitchen because one overripe mango started a full family of fruit flies 😅
Tiny habits like this are one of the easiest ways to make life easier later. Same idea as organizing honestly, prevent the problem before it becomes a bigger one 😂
