Apeel Doesn’t Even Actually Preserve Produce
(It Doesn’t Work!)
Apeel is toxic, it’s made with solvents and heavy metals.
This stuff called Apeel that may be sprayed on your produce, and the store doesn’t even have to tell you it’s on your produce, on the package. Though in the beginning, some of them were labeling it.
As the public became more aware, some were actually putting stickers saying something else, like “ORGANIC,” over the Apeel label! But, Apeel also doesn’t even work.
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Since I started investigating this preservative for fruits and vegetables, and encouraging everyone who will listen to register their disapproval of our fruits and vegetables sprayed with it with people working in our Produce departments—
—I’ve had a number of people write me saying they’ve bought apples and avocados that look great on the outside, but are rotten and inedible on the inside.
Apples and avocados are the two most common produce items to be sprayed with Apeel. I share this with you because first of all, I think it’s a plus for us, the consumers, if this toxic coating we can’t wash off our food actually fails in the marketplace.
The founder of the company, as I dug through his applications for patents, his applications to the FDA, and his statements to early investors, originally intended his product to be sprayed on crops as they grew in the field.
But that was a failure. Now he’s marketing it to produce companies to spray it on already harvested produce.
I think your best argument, if you’re willing to call Costco, or whatever grocery store you go to (and I really hope you will!), is to tell them that produce rots on the inside, even if a preservative coating tricks the consumer because it looks better on the outside.
Retailers don’t want us to be unhappy with produce that looked good but is inedible. They know we’ll start shopping elsewhere.
The other side of the card you can put in your wallet also shows the brands who refuse to make a comment, OR who have been caught selling Apeel-sprayed produce.
This is my 7th update on Apeel, and it takes us a lot of work to do the research and the content.
So, thank you for subscribing. I’m always interested in hearing from those of you who talk to your Produce Managers. I read everything my staff sends me from you.
Best wishes from GreenSmoothieGirl!
Yes, it's only a cover-up. The inside of the fruit ages, at best, as it would anyway. Tampering with the peel could, conceivably, make things worse on the inside, but who can tell.
I'd say that this product is a good match for the superficiality of society, also possibly rotten on the inside.