Wait, Should I Have Been Washing My Bananas This Entire Time?!

When you purchase a bunch of bananas at the supermarket, you could be buying some insectile hangers-on along with it.

Before you bite into an apple or sprinkle some berries on your cereal, you most likely give the fruit a good rinse. When it comes to bananas, however, you probably skip this step. After all, their peel is nature’s version of a screen protector—right? If your banana has never known the kitchen sink, you might be surprised to see some TikToks encouraging people to wash the fruit post-purchase.

Lowenstein. And even if some stowaways do slip on board, you won’t be in danger of eating the eggs , since they’d be on the banana peel rather than the fruit itself. Still, if you’d rather keep fly eggs from multiplying in your kitchen, you might be wondering if the social media videos encouraging washing bananas are onto something. Sort of: Sure, it’ll “remove the eggs,” Dr. Lowenstein says. But it also honestly might not be worth the trouble—especially if you’re a big banana fan.

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