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Eco-friendly or pre-packed fruit & veg in Covid?

suziwan1973
suziwan1973 Posts: 1 Member
edited January 23 in Food and Nutrition
Is it better to keep buying loose fruit & veg during the Covid lockdown, or does keeping healthy justify the purchase of plastic wrapped groceries?

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  • kimny72
    kimny72 Posts: 16,011 Member
    edited January 2021
    Most of the data confirms that it is at least rare, if it happens at all, to contract covid-19 from surfaces. As long as you wash your produce before you eat it, I don't see how buying wrapped produce is safer pandemic-wise. Just don't touch your face until you get home and wash your hands, which would be the same if that produce was wrapped in plastic.
  • rosebarnalice
    rosebarnalice Posts: 3,488 Member
    I'm with @kimny72 . With proper precautions, unwrapped produce should be fine. And a side benefit: most of the e.Coli outbreaks associated with produce have come from facilities where thinga like lettuce and spinach are prepped and packaged, rather than from bulk-packed loose produce.
  • gigius72
    gigius72 Posts: 183 Member
    I don't think it makes a difference. The fruit has the same chances of being touched as the plastic wrap. You need to sanatize both.
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