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Do I need to wash avocados?
It turns out, you do need to wash avocados—unless you want to risk coming into contact with potentially harmful bacteria.When it comes to washing produce, I always assumed the rules were pretty straightforward. If you don’t eat the peel, don’t wash it. I never bother rinsing my bananas or oranges—so why bother with avocados?Why should you wash avocados?In December 2018, the FDA released a four-year report that studied over 1,500 avocados for bacteria. There was good news and bad news: Less than 1 percent of avocados tested positive for salmonella, but around 18 percent tested positive for listeria. That means...