Do you really need to wash your fruit and vegetables?

Caption:Most of the food that we eat is not sterile and they don’t need to be, Massey University’s professor of food safety and microbiology Steve Flint said. (file image)Photo credit:UnsplashScreenshot from video on TikTok of person washing fruit and vegetables in dishwasher.TikTok / allrecipesMassey University Professor of Food Safety and Microbiology Steve Flint.Massey University(file image)123RFGlenn Forsyth.Cole Eastham-Farrelly(file image)Christine Siracusa for Unsplash

Woman shopping with trolley, holding receipt of grocery items, with food in handing, checking prices.

HortNZ Chair Barry O’Neil speaks at the AGM in Mount Maunganui on Friday.

A collection of snack foods on a kitchen bench

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Coogee Beach shark attack victim Leah Stewart with her daughter before the June 2026 shark attack

Juan Manuel Leon Sandoval’s case was heard in the Hamilton District Court.

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