What actually happens between the mandi and your plate
Produce in India travels a long way before it reaches your kitchen counter. Beyond Wash is a herbal neutralization formulation spray for surface residues on fruits and vegetables. This page explains what is in the bottle, how the pack asks you to use it, what the lab tests showed, and the things it does not do.
How to use it
Four steps. Sixty seconds.
Exactly what is printed on the bottle.
Step 01
Wash your fruit or vegetable with clean water
Start with a normal rinse in clean water, the way you already do. Get the loose soil and grit off first, especially with root vegetables and monsoon greens. Why: This is the first of the four steps printed on the pack, and it leaves the skin itself, rather than a layer of mud, as the surface you go on to spray.
Step 02
Spray on the entire surface at a distance of 12 inches
Hold the bottle about a foot away and mist across the whole surface. Turn the produce as you go, and take the extra second over stem bases, ridges and joints, which are the parts a single pass tends to skip. Why: Twelve inches is the distance printed on the pack, and the instruction is to cover the entire surface, so a side you never turned towards the bottle is a side you never sprayed.
Step 03
Wait for 60 seconds, don't touch
Set it down and leave it alone for a full minute without touching it, exactly as the pack asks. Use the minute to put the rest of the shopping away or to set the water on for chai. Why: The third printed step is the wait itself: 60 seconds, don't touch. Picking the produce up early cuts the minute short.
Step 04
Your food is ready to eat, cook or store
After the minute, the produce can go into the fridge, into the tiffin, into the kadhai or straight onto the plate. Pat dry if you are storing greens, since trapped moisture makes them wilt faster. Recommended: for produce eaten raw, like salads and fruit, give it a final rinse under running water.
The journey
Field, truck, mandi, thela, kitchen
A bhindi picked in a field does not come straight to your kitchen. It sits in a crate. It rides a truck through a night and a day. It is unloaded at a wholesale mandi, stacked, sorted, sprinkled with water to look fresh, handled by several pairs of hands, moved again to a retail thela or a shop, and handled again by whoever picked it up before you did.
Every one of those steps leaves something on the surface. Field dust and soil from the crate. Whatever was sprayed on the crop before harvest and has dried on the skin. Dust from the road, the market floor and the shop front. The handling residue of every hand and every surface the vegetable has rested on. None of it is visible in a way that tells you how much is there, which is exactly the problem.
In the monsoon it gets harder. Damp crates, muddy transport, methi and palak arriving with soil still packed into the leaf joints. You cannot control any of that upstream. What you can control is the minute before the produce goes into your fridge or your kadhai.
Where residue collects
A rinse is the first step, not the whole job
Every kitchen in India starts with a rinse, and it is worth doing. It takes off the loose soil, the grit that came out of the crate and the dust that came in with the bag. The pack asks for it too: step one is to wash your fruit or vegetable with clean water, before anything else happens. The awkward part is that a rinsed surface and an unrinsed one look much the same once the water has run off, so the eye is no help in telling you when you are done.
Most fruit and vegetables carry a waxy cuticle, a natural layer the plant grows to hold moisture in. You can feel it on an apple, a capsicum or a karela, and you can watch a drop of water sit on it as a bead instead of spreading out. That cuticle is the outer face of the produce. It is the surface your hands meet, and it is the surface anything picked up along the journey has landed on.
Then there is the geometry. Produce is not smooth. Grapes have stem attachment points. Strawberries have seed pits. Cauliflower has a thousand tight crevices. Palak has the joint where leaf meets stalk. Bhindi has ridges. These are the parts of a vegetable that are easiest to miss, whatever you happen to be cleaning it with, and they are the parts worth turning towards the light before you decide the job is finished.
So this is not an argument against rinsing. Rinsing lifts the loose soil and it matters. It is an argument for treating the rinse as the opening move of a routine rather than the whole of it, which is how the pack sets it out: wash, spray the entire surface, wait sixty seconds, then eat, cook or store.
The formula
What is in the bottle, in plain language
Beyond Wash is built on mineral salts and plant waters rather than on soap or detergent. Each 10 mL contains samundra lavan 0.7 mL, sindha namak 0.4 mL and sanchal 0.3 mL, with aloevera 1.0 mL, tulsi ark 0.5 mL and ajma ark 0.3 mL. Water makes up the remaining 6.8 mL of every 10 mL.
What the routine asks of you is a minute. Spray the entire surface from a distance of twelve inches, then wait 60 seconds and do not touch the produce while you wait. That wait is a printed step on the pack rather than a refinement we have added on the website, and it is the same minute whether you are spraying two lemons or two kilos of bhindi.
Seven ingredients in all: plant extracts, mineral salts and water. Tulsi grows in courtyards all over the country and ajwain sits in most masala dabbas, which is why the names are familiar. The full table is printed on the back of the pack and on our Ingredients page.
That is the honest scope of it. Beyond Wash is a herbal neutralization formulation spray, it is used on the outside of fruits and vegetables, and it is used in the minute the pack asks you to give it.
What the lab tests showed
The numbers, read carefully
The pack says: neutralises up to 90%* of harmful toxins. That figure was the manufacturer's own claim for the formulation. Since then we have had the formulation tested by independent labs, and the results are summarised on our Lab Results page, with the full signed reports available on WhatsApp.
On mango and onion, with 72 pesticides screened, total detected pesticide residue fell by over 99% after spraying. The unwashed mango carried 3 pesticides above FSSAI limits; after spraying, none. In a shelf-life study, sprayed tomatoes stayed fresh for 10 days while unsprayed tomatoes grew mould. Vitamin C, fibre and potassium in pomegranate were essentially unchanged.
Read those results honestly too. Each one applies to the samples tested, and real results depend on the produce, how much residue is on it, how thoroughly you sprayed, and whether you gave the full sixty seconds. A well sprayed apple and a bunch of coriander crammed into a bowl will not behave the same way.
Everyday use
One millilitre, three kilograms
The dosage mark printed on the pack is 1 mL = 3 kg, which is 1 mL of spray for up to 3 kg of produce. That is a light mist across the surface, not a soaking. A 50 mL bottle covers up to 150 kg of produce and a 30 mL bottle up to 90 kg. For a family of four using about 500 g of produce per person per day, that is about 2.5 months for the 50 mL, 1.5 months for the 30 mL and 5 months for the Family Pack.
The habit that works is the simplest one. Do it once, at the counter, when the bag comes home from the mandi. Rinse, spray, wait, and put things away. Produce you have already sprayed and dried can be stored, packed into a tiffin, or cooked as usual.
Two sizes, 30 mL and 50 mL, plus a Family Pack of two 50 mL bottles. Current prices are on the shop page. Delivery is free above ₹499 and ₹49 below that, and COD is available on most pin codes.
Your first order is covered by a 30-day money-back guarantee. If a bottle reaches you damaged, leaking or wrong, raise a replacement request within 7 days of delivery and return shipping is on us. The full terms are on the return and refund policy page.
Produce guide
What to spray, and how.
The same bottle, adjusted slightly for what is in your basket.
Leafy greens
Palak, methi, coriander, curry leaves, lettuce, spring onion
Separate the bunch first and rinse well, since soil packs into the joint where leaf meets stalk. Spread the leaves out in a wide colander or on a tray so they are in a single layer, then mist across the whole surface rather than into a tight bundle. Wait the full sixty seconds, then pat dry before storing. Greens sprayed while crammed together will have unsprayed patches in the middle.
Berries and grapes
Grapes, strawberries, jamun, blueberries
Do not pull grapes off the stem before spraying; the stem attachment point is easy to miss with a spray, and an intact bunch handles better. Rinse gently, spread the fruit in one layer so nothing is hiding underneath, and turn the bunch once mid-spray to reach the underside. These are delicate skins, so keep to a light mist and do not rub them afterwards.
Root vegetables
Potato, carrot, beetroot, radish, sweet potato, ginger
Scrub the soil off in clean water first. This group arrives with the most visible dirt on it, which is why the pack's first step matters most here. Once the surface is clean and the obvious grit is gone, mist evenly and give it the minute. Roots with folds and eyes, such as ginger and potato, need turning so the spray reaches into the hollows.
Waxy fruit and vegetables
Apple, capsicum, tomato, brinjal, karela, cucumber
These skins are smooth and slightly waxy, and you can watch a drop of water bead on them instead of spreading out. Spray the whole surface, including the dimple around the stem, and roll the fruit so no side is missed. Hold the bottle about twelve inches away, as the pack says, and then leave the fruit undisturbed for the full sixty seconds before you handle it.
Herbs and small aromatics
Pudina, curry patta, green chilli, coriander sprigs
Small leaves clump, so loosen the bunch and lay it out flat before spraying. A light mist is enough, and these need the full minute like anything else. Dry them properly afterwards, since herbs stored damp spoil faster.
Firm-skinned and thick-rind produce
Bhindi, beans, gourds, pumpkin, cauliflower, broccoli
Ridged and crevice-heavy produce needs turning. Bhindi has ridges, cauliflower and broccoli have tight florets, and gourds have long surfaces that a single pass will miss. Mist from two or three angles rather than one, and let it sit undisturbed for sixty seconds. For cauliflower, break it into large florets first so the spray can reach inside the head.
Do not use it on these.
- · Not a disinfectant or sanitiser, and not a claim to kill bacteria or viruses
- · Not for drinking. Keep the bottle away from children and away from eyes. For the outside of fruits and vegetables only
- · Not a substitute for cooking your food properly, and not a change to anything your kitchen already does
- · Not a pesticide test, and not a way to know what was on your produce to begin with
- · Not for dry goods, dals, nuts, atta, meat, fish, eggs, dairy, kitchen surfaces, utensils, cloth or hands
What Beyond Wash is not
What Beyond Wash is not
It is not a disinfectant or a sanitiser. It does not kill bacteria or viruses, and we will not claim that it does. It is a herbal neutralization formulation spray for surface residues on produce, and that is the whole of it.
It is not for drinking. Keep the bottle away from children and away from eyes. Store it in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight. Do not spray it into water you intend to drink, or onto anything other than the outside of fruits and vegetables.
It is not a substitute for cooking your food properly. It is a surface step for raw fruits and vegetables, and it changes nothing about what happens afterwards in the pan, the pressure cooker or the tandoor. Beyond Wash sits alongside good kitchen practice, not in place of it.
It is not a pesticide test. It cannot tell you what was sprayed on your produce, how much of it was there, or how much is left afterwards. What we offer is a sixty-second step that reduces what sits on the surface, and the lab results behind that are summarised on our Lab Results page.
It is a spray for the outer surface of fruits and vegetables, and that is the whole of its scope. Not on dry goods, whole spices, dals, nuts or atta. Not on meat, fish, eggs, paneer or any dairy. Not on kitchen surfaces, utensils, cloth or hands. If you are unsure, ask us before you spray it: +91 95377 66696 or care@beyondwash.in, Monday to Saturday, 10 am to 7 pm IST.
Safety
Read this bit properly.
It is a herbal neutralization formulation spray. It is meant for the outside of fruits and vegetables, and nothing else.
Not for drinking
Keep away from children
Keep away from eyes
Store cool and dry, away from direct sunlight
If swallowed
Contact a doctor immediately and take the pack with you. Customer care: +91 95377 66696.