Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The paring knife method works best if you only have one or two apples that need to be relieved of their waxy coats. With this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hand holding supermarket apple with a glossy wax coating against blurred apple background. - Wang Yukun/Getty Images Shiny red ...

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 Washington, ...

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 ...

Wax coatings on grocery store apples help preserve their freshness, firmness, and moisture during storage and transportation.