We’re all suckers for a bit of sun dried anything. If we can’t see the sun we figure we might as well just try and eat it.

Hayley and Andrew recently spent some time foraging with fruit farmers in South Africa and came across some peaches gleaming in the sun. Keen to know more they asked the farmers to explain: Sundried means about 3 weeks outside. You have to bathe fruit in Sulphur dioxide first otherwise swarms of flies and animals would come for supper.  Even the rats are put off. As it’s so full of chemicals the farmers said the only trouble they have is with birds, and their going to the loo, mid-flight above the peaches.

Before it’s packed up for the shops, the fruit is put through the sulphite chamber one more time to make sure that it’s well and truly coated. Sulphites really stink, and as the guys discovered, they make you cough if you get close to them. Why humans want to put stuff like that in food is beyond BEAR. We snarl at things like this when people treat fruit this way.

Keep an eye out for sulphites and growl in the comments if you find any in your fridge you didn’t expect to.