Re: peaches and nectarines

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My Dad drove an A & P truck for 40 years. He says the fruit that comes into the warehouses, are picked green. Because the fruit doesn't get enough sun, they won't ripen right. We get most of our fruit at fruit & vegetable markets, that are only open from March to the beginning of Dec. They ripen fine and taste good, but we still don't know what chemicals were used.

[ ] peaches and nectarines"natural remedies" <natural_remedies >Date: Thursday, June 3, 2010, 9:43 PM

Hey group,

I just wanted to follow up on Marty's post about the top 12 worst fruits to buy. Explaining that they have 47-67 pesticides in them..

I recently bought peaches and nectarines at the grocery store here in Oregon. I bought them non organic, what attracted me to get them was the way they smelled, so heavenly.

I brought them home and everyone in the family kept asking me where that wonderful smell came from. I told them the peaches and nectarines were ripening, as soon as they ripen we'll eat them. But what happened was they never ripened, they started to mold, they were hard as a rock. One nectarine I opened and ate, was tasteless, I threw it out. So this is what I got, from conventional fruit grown by pesticides. Very disappointed, and will learn from this experience.

Well we live and learn, right?

Blessings,

Michele

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that is why I usually do buy local produce, we have a stand that opens seasonally in June-October, selling local produce from our state. But that smell of nectarines were really amazing and through me off. Apricots are one of my favorites and they come from California, I would only buy them if they have a blush of orange on them and I smell them 1st, sometimes they are good more than bad. The Cherries here are usually very tasty coming from Washington State, the queen anne's, the yellow cherries. I have a queen anne cherry tree, but the jays know about it in the neighborhood and they dont wait for them to ripen either, so we try to put a net around them, perhaps we get a few.But now that I have learned and knowing the top 12 worst pesticide laden fruits and vegetables I am going

to buy organic and local from now on.We are lucky enough to have a blueberry organic farm up our road, and I bought last summer about 6 flats of blueberries, I ordered a head of time. We never had enough left over for me to freeze them.So buying in a regular grocery store you will usually get unripened picked green produce that is ladened with pesticides. YUCK!Michele

From: michele horton <epifany97523>Subject: [ ] peaches and nectarines"natural remedies" <natural_remedies>Date: Thursday, June 3, 2010, 9:43 PM

Hey group,

I just wanted to follow up on Marty's post about the top 12 worst fruits to buy. Explaining that they have 47-67 pesticides in them..

I recently bought peaches and nectarines at the grocery store here in Oregon. I bought them non organic, what attracted me to get them was the way they smelled, so heavenly.

I brought them home and everyone in the family kept asking me where that wonderful smell came from. I told them the peaches and nectarines were ripening, as soon as they ripen we'll eat them. But what happened was they never ripened, they started to mold, they were hard as a rock. One nectarine I opened and ate, was tasteless, I threw it out. So this is what I got, from conventional fruit grown by pesticides. Very disappointed, and will learn from this experience.

Well we live and learn, right?

Blessings,

Michele

[Guest guest]

I had my own fig tree. I found If I picked them a bit green and left them on the patio they would ripen the rest of the way, if I took them in (air condtitioned) they would not. I also found once the fruit once cooled in the house or refrigerator and then taken out to the patio again they would not ripen either. This is of course organic figs I'd grown myself. Not a true scientific study but there is something about refrigerating a fruit that seems to stop the ripens process. BTW this was the same with my apricots too.

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From: michele horton <epifany97523>Subject: [ ] peaches and nectarines"natural remedies" <natural_remedies>Date: Thursday, June 3, 2010, 9:43 PM

Hey group,

I just wanted to follow up on Marty's post about the top 12 worst fruits to buy. Explaining that they have 47-67 pesticides in them..

I recently bought peaches and nectarines at the grocery store here in Oregon. I bought them non organic, what attracted me to get them was the way they smelled, so heavenly.

I brought them home and everyone in the family kept asking me where that wonderful smell came from. I told them the peaches and nectarines were ripening, as soon as they ripen we'll eat them. But what happened was they never ripened, they started to mold, they were hard as a rock. One nectarine I opened and ate, was tasteless, I threw it out. So this is what I got, from conventional fruit grown by pesticides. Very disappointed, and will learn from this experience.

Well we live and learn, right?

Blessings,

Michele