No, polishing up your apple with the use of your t-shirt doesn’t count as properly washing your fruits and veggies. And running them under the faucet for about half a second might not do much good either. To get rid of highly undesirable stuff like pesticides and wax and handling residue, thedelicious insists on using Fit Fruit and Vegetable Wash. Here, she gives us the lowdown on why clean fruits and veggies are “serious business”:

“I am no freaky weird girl-in-a-bubble germaphobe, but I use FIT fruit and vegetable wash on EVERY fruit and vegetable that comes into my house, even if it’s labeled as organic, even if I bought it from the farmers’ market from the hot son of the farmer from whom I’ve been buying fresh figs for five years. It not only dissolves those disgusting waxes and preservatives that the grocery store sprays on (which can trap bacteria and other weird stuff), but it washes away excess dirt and human germs that are everywhere, no matter your source.”

And don’t be skeeved out by the idea of spraying a cleaning product onto something you’re going to eat: Fit uses natural cleansers like purified water, vegetable-derived glycerol, baking soda, and grapefruit oil, all of which rinse away completely before reaching your lips.