Get in on the need to know, when it comes to pesticides in your food. When buying produce its hard to tell what added substances you are going to ingest. What you need to know!!! Every year the Environmental Working Group will release a list of what is called the "Dirty Dozen." If you are new to eating clean and want to know what the heck is in your food,this is a great place to start.
Let's Start with the CLEAN 15.
This list contains foods that when tested does not hold pesticides and you can purchase the conventional type (non-organic)
Sweet Potatoes
Cauliflower
Cantaloupe
Grapefruit
Eggplant
Kiwi
Papayas
Asparagus
Onions
Sweet Peas Frozen
Avocados
Sweet Corn
Pineapples
Dirty Dozen list is a buy organic when you can. This list contains foods with the highest amounts of pesticides
Apples- Apples are consistently on the top of the list containing more than 45 different chemical have been detected..
Strawberries
Grapes
Celery
Peaches
Cherry Tomatoes
Cucumbers
Nectarines
Snap Peas
Potatoes
Sweet Bell Peppers
Collard Greens
So what do you think?
http://www.ewg.org/
