Cantaloupe - do you still eat it?

[mrstina08]

No not anymore. I use to wonder way I would get sick. Now I know want be eating them anymore.

[qtrdhd]

After I heard people had died from eating the ones from Colorado I haven't touched one.  There are so many other kinds of fruit out there, I say why risk it?

[tammypete]

I love cantaloupe but I havent bought any since the health scare!   I don't care to take that chance!

[sh1980]

I am not eating..I have one in my refrigerator..after hearing so much of health issues I will throw it today.

[g0ku4life]

I never liked the stuff so I never eat it

[sommap]

Maybe if the outside is washed off thoroughly, it would be okay.  I read that contamination comes from a knife going through the rind to the inside.

[rego]

have bought and eaten it also gave to my child and no one has gotten sick,good luck.

[dbsaus1]

I am passing on cantaloupe for a while but like the Chilean grapes,this will pass.

[Annella]

I don't like it so no problem here. I always wash my produce very well. Even watermelon that I'm going to cut into. I see many people just cut right into the watermelon and start serving it. There is so much junk on the outside of our foods that it's just common sense to wash it. I even wash meat before packing it to freeze or cook. I mean, how often do meat markets wash their knives and slicing blades during the day?

[tjshorty]

I had forgot about that, just bought one, haven't eaten it yet.  Thanks for remimding me

[Flackle]

After I heard people had died from eating the ones from Colorado I haven't touched one.  There are so many other kinds of fruit out there, I say why risk it?

Why would you risk eating any fruit? Anything you eat that isn't cook has the possibility of being contaminated by anything. The fact that they might have found one in which someone did die from a contamination would probably be safer to eat. Believe it or not, big corporations do not want their customers to die. More than likely by now any cantaloupe that was contaminated are either no longer in the market or are very scarce. The chances that another fruit may have a contamination is at least as likely. In fact, you may be at greater risk for eating a fruit which no one knows is contaminated or not. If you really want to make sure you're not going to die then wash all your fruit throughly.

Heres an idea: Eat whatever you want, and unless you know for sure what you are eating is going to kill you, then don't worry about the risk involved. Life if full of too many risk to be limiting what you'd like to do based off of fear.

I had forgot about that, just bought one, haven't eaten it yet.  Thanks for remimding me

Give it to a homeless person. I'm sure they wouldn't care about the contamination if they're starving to death.

[woods6]

Loved to but dont see any for sale in Colorado... 

[Ittai]

no not at all. but then again i dont really buy that

[Lindaroof]

I find myself afraid of it, its really scary to think about all the illnesses and deaths due to it.

[reimii]

well this sucks ..   I like cantaloupe