Wax on, wax off. Wax on again. You may have noticed that when you run a knife over a store-bought apple, wax scrapes off — but Kait Thornton (@apple.girl.kait), an apple and pear farmer in ...

Look closely and you may find that your grocery store apples have a thin waxy coating. What is this stuff exactly and is it ...

Wax helps prevent bruising, over-ripening, and mold growth. But eating a waxy apple may not be the best experience. Wax? On apples? It’s true—apples naturally produce a coating of wax that ...

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 off of her tree and one that had recently been cleaned and ...

TAIPEI/BEIJING--Taiwan threatened to take China to the World Trade Organization on Sunday after Beijing said it would suspend sugar apple and wax apple imports from the island on pest concerns ...