Hand holding supermarket apple with a glossy wax coating against blurred apple background. - Wang Yukun/Getty Images Shiny red apples are the quintessential supermarket item whenever you enter the ...

Extra-glossy fruits and shiny vegetables often greet you when you venture out for grocery-shopping. By now, many people are aware that the shine comes from artificial wax coating that is applied on ...

A bowl of red apples next to three green and red apples - Thanasis/Getty Images Like most fruits and vegetables, apples have a high water content, which means they are prone to losing moisture. To ...

Kait Thornton (@apple.girl.kait), a Washington-based apple farmer, said that it shouldn’t cause alarm that apples have a thin wax coating. To demonstrate why, she put two apples on display: one fresh ...

As the stress of sheltering place and social isolation has caused an increase in comfort food cravings during the COVID-19 pandemic, an old rumor has resurfaced on social media claiming that instant ...

Among the vast rainbow of fruits, blue fruits are so rare that scientists classify them as outliers. But strip away a blueberry’s waxy outer coating and the berry looks black. Squish it and the juice ...