Covid-19: should you use fruit and vegetable soaps? : Current Woman Le MAG

Since the beginning of the pandemic everyone, at one time or another, has fatally asked the question: can my fruits and vegetables contaminate me? Do I have to wash them with something other than water and vinegar or baking soda, as many have already done to remove traces of pesticides from non-organic vegetables?

This is obviously the case for many consumers who have run for fruit and vegetable soaps offered by certain brands (such as Briochin), at unbeatable prices from above. For the French brand, we are still at 3.45 € per half-liter for a mixture that contains mainly vinegar. A price that goes up to 9 euros per liter for some of its competitors.

These things have been ripping off like hotcakes since the start of the health crisis. Catcher or marketing fear, we will call it what we want but they are not really useful. Continue to wash your vegetables as before, and if you are really stressed, wait two days before eating them but remember that there have been no cases of transmission of Covid-19 by food to date.

And that according to health authorities the risk is negligible. As Gilles Salvat, research director at ANSES (National Health Security Agency) explained, to our colleagues at Que Choisir: “SARS-CoV-2 belongs to the family of enveloped viruses, which are much more fragile than others. He is probably sensitive to stomach acid. Most importantly, for a virus to enter the cells of the body and make a person sick, it must bind to specific receptors. However, those corresponding to SARS-CoV-2 are abundantly present in the respiratory system, but not in the digestive system. "

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