Fruitwash Labels Dissolve Into Natural Produce Cleaner When Rinsed

Fruit labels have their fans, weirdly. Some, like Roger Harris, founder of "the world's first fruit label" site, "The World of Fruit Labels," wax poetic about the design of the little stickers affixed to pears, oranges and apples sold in supermarkets. But there is one element of the fruit label that no one, not even the diehards, likes: the little residue left behind after peeling a label off a piece of fruit. Harris, for example, writes:

Often after removing the label a thin layer of glue remains and it requires some effort and solvent to remove it. Since one may easily eat some of the adhering glue I wonder whether fruit label glues are subject to analysis for toxicity.

The fruit label residue problem may, indeed, be the worst thing about eating fruit out of hand, other than the fact that fruit doesn't taste like bacon or foie gras or Dom Perignon.

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