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.
Although no genetically modified plants have been approved for human consumption, more and more of these crops are being developed and acknowledged as potentially offering huge human health benefits. For instance, they have seen enhanced nutrition in the form of zeaxanthin in potatoes, omega-3 fatty acid in soybeans, and stearidonic acid (SDA) in canola.
The FDA is getting ready to approve a new genetically modified salmon which grows twice as fast as normal
farm-raised salmon. The trick is altering a gene that controls the production of growth hormones. The company behind
the technology is 
The European Union has 
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