See, I thought "frozen" would have been the way to go - thinking that the freezing process would kill whatever was in there. I've eaten a ton of raspberries and never gotten sick, but looking back, most had been cooked or maybe had alcohol with them.
I was in such denial about it that I even bought another package of the frozen, thinking it was a one-time happening - nope, evidently it was from that same batch. Violently ill (I never, ever, ever get "throw up" sick from *anything*, ever!) at the first bite. Explosively ill, if you get my drift. Not only that, my mouth broke out in blisters a few days later and I couldn't eat for 3 weeks, could barely talk.
There is a veggie wash that people use, but I just don't know whether you can get it in the nooks and crannies of a raspberry. I can't imagine "brushing" them, you know, like with a toothbrush?
Don't know the answer. I just assume now that I'm allergic and don't eat anything with raspberries or raspberry flavoring. Just like strawberries.
Oh, my grocery store said that no one else had complained about that batch of raspberries, but I don't know if they told me the truth. Also, I did find out that strawberry allergy is one of the most prevalent of the food allergies and that raspberries are often processed in the same plant and with the same equipment as strawberries - so that was one possibility - as I had been without anything remotely related to strawberries in my system for over 20 years at that point.
Still, my allergies never made me throw up - only made my throat close up and breathing difficult. After reading about the cleaning problems the processors have with raspberries, it dawned on me what probably happened.
Yikes. I am like you, never throwing up ever. That must have been a horrible batch. We make smoothies with frozen fruit too. Now I am really worried!
I have heard that throwing all your produce when you get home from the store into a sinkful of water with a few drops of bleach in it will help. I even used to do this but haven't in years because it's such a pain.