What do fruit stickers mean? . What do the stickers on vegetables and fruits mean? What does the sticker on fruits mean?
Who doesn't know the sticker from the photo? For many of those whose childhood was spent in the USSR, it was associated with a rare joy - oranges and tangerines, and sometimes bananas.
Children carefully and even with some trepidation tore off the sticker, sticking it on their desk, on the refrigerator (there were no magnets from travels then), on the tile in the kitchen or just on their foreheads.
Now stickers on fruits and vegetables no longer surprise anyone. Almost always they are on bananas, oranges, often come across on apples, pears, kiwi and other fruits, and sometimes on vegetables - cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers.
What are they needed for
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This is how the manufacturer labels his product. After all, when buying milk or pasta, you distinguish who produced this or that product, and choose based on this.
Bananas are not packed in boxes and bags, so the only way for the manufacturer to make himself known is with a small sticker. One banana manufacturer even sticks a small comic to each one in order to attract the attention of the consumer.
Next time you will choose bananas, apples or tomatoes of the brand that you once liked.
Some stickers also have a barcode or a QR code, which encodes information about the product, which can be read by a cashier in a supermarket, or you can learn more about the product yourself using a special mobile application for reading codes.
They are actually edible.
Of course, this does not mean that the sticker must be eaten. But manufacturers claim that all stickers are made from special edible paper. This, for example, is sometimes used in decorating cakes. Even the glue applied to the sticker is edible.
With banana and tangerine, you will remove the sticker along with the peel. But if you accidentally eat a piece of a sticker from an apple or don’t completely wash off the sticky trace from it, nothing bad will happen to you.
If you still want to remove the sticker without a trace, the fastest and most convenient way is to use a piece of tape that is slightly larger than the sticker. Glue it on top and remove it - it will take the sticker with it.
The numbers on the sticker can be deciphered
Some stickers contain a digital code. What does it mean?
Usually four numbers on the sticker indicate that the fruit or vegetable is grown in the traditional way.
If there are five digits, then you need to look at which digit comes first. If the number starts with the number 8, you have a product that was grown using genetic engineering technologies - the same GMO that causes so much controversy.
If the first number is 9, the fruit or vegetable is grown using the so-called organic technologies, as close as possible to natural conditions.
The rest of the code is usually the same. For example, on bananas you will see the number 4011 or 94011 if the product is listed as organic. On apples are the numbers 4130, and on kiwi - 4030.
Laser engraving instead of stickers
Fruit stickers may soon disappear forever, in the US and Europe they are gradually being replaced by laser engraving.
Such "tattoos" are performed using iron hydroxides and oxides, which, when applied, do not get under the skin of the fruit. The coding allows the product to be identified throughout the delivery.
While this method is used most often on pomegranates, melons, oranges, bananas.
Probably, every person who buys fruits has seen small stickers of various shapes on them. These stickers on fruits have information in the form of numbers, which can be used to draw some conclusions about the origin and name of the fruit. If, of course, you know the meaning of the numbers. We invite you to familiarize yourself with these figures.
4 digit code starting with 3 or 4
Such a code indicates that the fruits were grown in intensive mode. Simply put, the fruits were subjected to abundant application of fertilizers and pesticides in order to speed up the growing process.
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5 digit code starting with 8
But such a sticker on the fruit indicates that the product is genetically modified. If you are not a supporter of GMOs, then do not buy fruits with such stickers.
5 digit code starting with 9
Such fruits are the safest, because. they were grown under traditional conditions, with minimal or no fertilizer use. A fruit with such a sticker can be considered organic.
The rest of the code only talks about the name of the fruit. For example, 4011 - bananas, 4030 - kiwi, etc. By the way, sticker manufacturers claim that all these fruit stickers are edible. Of course, you shouldn’t eat them on purpose, but if such a sticker or part of it accidentally enters the body, then nothing bad will happen.
Have you ever seen fruits with stickers in stores? Are you wondering what information is encrypted in them? In addition to the bright logo on the sticker, there is a digital code.
It turns out that these figures contain important information for consumers. 
If the four-digit code starts with 3 or 4, which means that when growing fruits, the maximum number of agricultural technologies was used: they were abundantly watered with pesticides and fertilized with other chemicals.
If in front of you five-digit code with the first digit 9 consider yourself lucky. This means that fruits were grown in the traditional way, without the use of pesticides. You can consider such a product organic.
A five-digit code with the number 8 at the beginning is a sign that you have a GMO product in front of you.
According to studies, bananas, melons and papayas are most often genetically modified.
These designations have been used to label fruit worldwide since 1990. And it doesn't matter where the fruit was grown: in both Poland and the United States, a banana will have the code "4011" if it was grown under an accelerated scheme.
If the code is missing, should be concerned. Labeled products are safer - this means that they have been certified. If there are no stickers, there is a high probability that the fruits have been “cleaned” from them.
Sellers can change labels on products to pass off genetics as organic and sell at a higher price. Be careful when you buy such fruits!
Aug 17, 2018 Oksana
Stickers on vegetables and fruits: what you did not know about
Evgenia BeresnevaJanuary 23, 2015
Stickers on vegetables and fruits: what you did not know about
Photo: moskva.fruitinfo.ru
A small sticker on a banana or tangerine can be a source of important information. And some people create entire collections of them. We will tell you some interesting facts.
Who doesn't know the sticker from the photo? For many of those who spent their childhood in the USSR, it was associated with a rare joy - oranges and tangerines, and sometimes bananas.
Children carefully and even with some trepidation tore off the sticker, sticking it on their desk, on the refrigerator (there were no magnets from travels then), on the tile in the kitchen or just on their foreheads.
Now stickers on fruits and vegetables no longer surprise anyone. Almost always they are on bananas, oranges, often come across on apples, pears, kiwi and other fruits, and sometimes on vegetables - cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers.
What are they needed for
New.upakovano.ru
This is how the manufacturer labels his product. After all, when buying milk or pasta, you distinguish who produced this or that product, and choose based on this.
Bananas are not packed in boxes and bags, so the only way for the manufacturer to make himself known is with a small sticker. One banana manufacturer even sticks a small comic to each one in order to attract the attention of the consumer.
Next time you will choose bananas, apples or tomatoes of the brand that you once liked.
Some stickers also have a barcode or a QR code, which encodes information about the product, which can be read by a cashier in a supermarket, or you can learn more about the product yourself using a special mobile application for reading codes.
They are actually edible.
Of course, this does not mean that the sticker must be eaten. But manufacturers claim that all stickers are made from special edible paper. This, for example, is sometimes used in decorating cakes. Even the glue applied to the sticker is edible.
With banana and tangerine, you will remove the sticker along with the peel. But if you accidentally eat a piece of a sticker from an apple or don’t completely wash off the sticky trace from it, nothing bad will happen to you.
If you still want to remove the sticker without a trace, the fastest and most convenient way is to use a piece of tape that is slightly larger than the sticker. Glue it on top and remove it - it will take the sticker with it.
The numbers on the sticker can be deciphered
Some stickers contain a digital code. What does it mean?
Usually four numbers on the sticker indicate that the fruit or vegetable is grown in the traditional way.
If there are five digits, then you need to look at which digit comes first. If the number starts with the number 8, you have a product that was grown using genetic engineering technologies - the same GMO that causes so much controversy.
If the first number is 9, the fruit or vegetable is grown using the so-called organic technologies, as close as possible to natural conditions.
The rest of the code is usually the same. For example, on bananas you will see the number 4011 or 94011 if the product is listed as organic. On apples are the numbers 4130, and on kiwi - 4030.
Laser engraving instead of stickers
Fruit stickers may soon disappear forever, in the US and Europe they are gradually being replaced by laser engraving.
Such "tattoos" are performed using iron hydroxides and oxides, which, when applied, do not get under the skin of the fruit. The coding allows the product to be identified throughout the delivery.
While this method is used most often on pomegranates, melons, oranges, bananas.
