UNWASHED FRUIT.

Otaki Mail, 4 January 1924, Page 3

UNWASHED FRUIT.

v r-arning is given in a Sydney exchange which applies with equal reason to the subject at issue here in Otaki, or anywhere else for that matret. The writer says:—"Many people have been suffering lately from most unpleasant attacks which, for the sake

of dignity, they call gastritis. The weather is usually blamed, and no doubt deserves-some of the responsibility.' But doctors and chemists agree on another cause being sometimes at the root of the trouble, and emphasise the danger of eating unwashed fruit. For the sake of cleanliness alone fruit should always be washed before being eaten. Think of the many hands that touch the cherries and apricots before tbev reach your mouth! Often the fruit lies out on the barrows all day collecting all sorts of germs, -with the dust and dirt of the streets. Quite apart from this is the fact that some fruit trees are sprayed with arsenic of lead and other poisons. It is supposed tii be done six weeks b'efore the fruit ; - picked, and all traee of injurious mattor should have disappeared in that >:me. But who can be quite sure that ell the r.des of the game have been observed. So wash your fruit carefully '"•'fore sending it to the table, and take

(.vety precaution before dispensing fret of any sort at your out-of-doors pieces thes'e holidays."