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Is an organic apple worth the extra cost? Do you need to worry about pesticides when buying pineapples?
A new cheat-sheet will help you figure out which produce is pesticide-residue prone and should be bought organic and which are safe to buy from conventional growers, Lifehacker.com reported.
There are 12 foods on the list that are better off organic, if you're concerned about pesticides (it turns out apples are among the high-pesticide offenders). There is also a list of the "clean fifteen" -- foods with the lowest pesticide residue counts.
On the "always buy organic" list are: apples, cherries, grapes, celery, potatoes, bell peppers, peaches, strawberries, pears, peaches, nectarines and raspberries.
Foods with low pesticide residue counts are: cabbage, watermelon, sweet potatoes, mango, kiwi, papaya, pineapple, asparagus, bananas, broccoli, eggplant, onions, tomatoes, avocados and corn.
If you do choose to go organic with produce, knowing how to read organic and other food labels can help.
You can download a printable version of the cheat sheet at My Paper Crane.
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5-04-2010 @11:36AM Miransky said... And, you don't need insect repellant! Wishing you many more healthy and insect-free years.
5-04-2010 @11:09AM donna said... Why are they crying?
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5-04-2010 @11:10AM mads said... ...i guess the nation of america having the HIGHEST rate of cancer and obesity in the world, is too dramatic for people to put any effort into their diet though. ...
oh well, ...who cares.
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5-04-2010 @12:18PM Michael said... I like to eat meats, vegatables, and fruits mostly grown by folks in our own area, yep we have to get some fruits and things from other places, but you can buy most needs from local people in America!
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5-04-2010 @12:25PM Robert Wyrick said... Peaches are listed twice and there are only eleven pictured in the "always buy organic" list. So is it the Illogical Eleven instead of the Dirty Dozen?
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7-12-2010 @3:23PM Germaine Lynn said... Oops! I counted pictures, not words. Peaches and nectarines share a picture.
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5-04-2010 @1:09PM Lou said... ... just got finished reading about the death of the world's oldest person, a woman in Japan, just before her 115th birthday. Previous record holder was a 115 y.o. woman in LA, and now the champ is a 114 y.o. Englishwoman. Wonder if any of them ate "organic"?
I suspect most of us eat and have eaten food "contaminated" with chemicals and microorganisms for many years and, in the vast majority of instances, have suffered no significant adverse effects. Maybe some day some one will conduct a scientific study comparing morbidity and mortality in "organic" vs "non organic" food consumers.
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5-04-2010 @1:31PM Michael Zamboanga said... I'm glad somebody posted an article here about all of this. I was eating some plums a couple of weeks ago that clearly had been sprayed with pesticides that I was unable to wash off fully, and it led me to do a little research of my own. It's true that organically grown produce does sometimes contain pesticides, and I'll admit that I don't know whether those pesticides are safer than conventionally used ones or not. But the dangers are there, either way. I actually ended up writing about "poisoned apples" in my last entry at my blog. Feel free to check it out at http://michaelzamboangasblog.blogspot.com/.
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5-04-2010 @7:15PM jerry said... WE NEED TO BECOME OUR OWN FARMERS....AND ONLY THEN WILL WE KNOW IF PESTICIDES ARE BEING USED. THIS SOLVES THIS PROBLEM. NEXT
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