How to read the stickers on fruits and veggies

by Ellen Slattery, Posted Feb 5th 2008 @ 1:00PM

The nice thing about shopping at local farmers' markets is that they rarely mar their product with stickers that are hard to peel off and leave an unappealing, waxy residue.

But during the winter, many of us have no choice but to buy the stickered fruit. So, we should at least know how to identify our fruit by its sticker, right?

Ideal Bite kindly provided this short but effective tutorial:

A four-digit number means it was conventionally grown
A five-digit number beginning in "9" means it is organic
A five-digit number beginning in "8" means it was genetically modified.

...and now you know.

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Filed Under: Science, Farming, On the Blogs, Ingredients
Tags: farmer, fruit, GM, grow, organic, sticker, vegetables

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2-05-2008 @11:53PM MM said... I don't know of any genetically modified produce that you'd find on supermarket shelves. Grains yes, but no fruit or vegetables. Can someone list any they know of?
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2-05-2008 @8:20PM Paul Kennedy said... All produce has been genetically modified. The stuff on supermarket shelves are as close to there wild precursors as a shitzu is to a grey wolf
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