Is frozen fruit washed well enough for smoothies?

[joejack]

I make smoothies in my Vitamix every day for the familiy using bananas, frozen blueberries, frozen strawberries, and frozen mixed fruit (peaches mostly).

It just dawned on me that I don't wash that frozen fruit...I'm wondering if it's actually clean enough to be healthy? What do you think?

Thanks in advance for any opinions.

 

[boilerchick]

I often make smoothies with frozen fruit and I don't wash it. I actually never thought about it.

 

[kathryn]

I often make smoothies with frozen fruit and I don't wash it. I actually never thought about it.

Same here.

 

[Dela]

Never washed frozen fruit, I have eaten it almost daily for years. Blend away!

 

[maddiesmum]

I don't think any food production company on the planet would think for one minute that they could process, freeze and sell any fruit or vegetable that they had not washed beforehand.

Some frozen fruit cannot be washed after defrosting anyway!

I never worry about it. There's plenty of other shit happening in life that does need my worry directed towards it, can't waste it thinking about frozen fruit!

Clare

 

[Fit_mommy]

Something's gonna kill everyone someday but I doubt unwashed frozen fuit is gonna be the thing to do it!

 

[kathryn]

I think the danger with frozen fruit would be if it thawed, somehow got contaminated with something (or was contaminated before freezing and the contaminating bacteria was kept dormant but not killed by freezing), kept warm long enough for the bacteria to multiply, then refrozen with a higher level of bacteria.

 

[MidgetDogg]

I would think that anything that possibly could need to be washed off would be destroyed in the freezing process.