Much excitement in the Domestic Disgrace household yesterday when the postman delivered my first product to review.  To put this into context, other high points of the day were getting the washing out on the line and finding half a Kit Kat in my sock drawer but, nevertheless, it was still exciting.

So, I have in front of me a bottle of Fit antibacterial fruit and vegetable wash.  This is what the company who makes it have to say about it:

"From kitchens to bathrooms, toilets and all household surfaces we clean and disinfect every bit of our home - as well as wash our hands before handling food - but is the food we eat clean?  Short of scrubbing your fruit and vegetables with a detergent what can you do to protect yourself and the family?  The solution is Fit Fruit & vegetable Wash, made of natural ingredients, which removes pesticides and bacteria leaving no aftertaste or smell, so you get just the taste and nutrition that nature intended."

My first reaction to this was one of scepticism, after all, I am a slacker who doesn't "clean and disinfect every bit of my home".  My excuse is that a bit of dirt is good for the immune system, plus I reckon I've had worse in my mouth than a grubby apple (I know, I know, you can't buy class like that), so it's not exactly going to kill me.

Pesticides are a different matter though.  In an ideal world, the Disgrace household would buy and eat only organic produce, but money is tight, so unless we grow our own veg (unlikely - attempted this last year, resulting in a bumper crop of one courgette and four green tomatoes with a bonus plague of greenfly) it's not going to happen.  Sometimes as I hand Rory a bowl of fruit I have a niggling, guilty worry about it, but I never get much further than that.  Could Fit Wash be the answer to the problem?

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