TruffleChrissy
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How can you tell if your citrus fruits are waxed or unwaxed, if it doesn't say?
If in doubt, you can run them under boiling water - apparently it washes/melts any wax offHow can you tell if your citrus fruits are waxed or unwaxed, if it doesn't say?
I have not seen a waxed citrus fruit. I have seen waxed cucumbers.How can you tell if your citrus fruits are waxed or unwaxed, if it doesn't say?
How do you know? You can't necessarily tell by appearance. That's the problem....I have not seen a waxed citrus fruit. I have seen waxed cucumbers.
Here in the US, anything waxed has to be labeled as such.How do you know? You can't necessarily tell by appearance. That's the problem....
Its good that your labelling laws specify that it has to be stated. I didn't know that. Here, that is not the case. Its funny really because here we have most everything labelled with country of origin (and often region and specific farmers) but not waxing - but in the US you don't have place of origin but do get to know about waxing!Here in the US, anything waxed has to be labeled as such.
Because most of our citrus comes from Mexico or the very south part of the US.and since one typically doesn't eat the peels, they do not wax them here in the US. That would just be an added expense.
Typically citrus in the US is picked by migrant farm workers. Then it is either put straight into boxes or bags after running through a sorter. The culled oranges are typically turned into canned orange juice. (Yes, that is as awful as it sounds.)
Now I can understand waxing them if they were going from Mexico to say the UK for keeping purposes.
Longer journey. Off topic: I saw an old dried out orange studded with cloves for sale at the thrift store yesterday. The orange part was long gone, just the peel and cloves. I bet the workers thought it was a decoration and had no clue what they were looking at.
It needs to be boiling water. Hot is not hot enough.Running under hot water is a great idea. Thanks.