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Tip 6: Starting with Organics
Healthy Child
Monday, October 02, 2006
If you are just starting to switch to organic foods, try these 10 first:
• Baby food
• Strawberries
• Rice
• Oats and other grains
• Milk
• Corn
• Bananas
• Green beans
• Peaches
• Apples
The most consistently contaminated fruits and vegetables with pesticide resides are:
Apples
Bell Peppers
Celery
Cherries
Grapes (imported)
Peaches
Pears
Potatoes
Red Raspberries
Spinach
Carrots
Strawberries
These 12 popular fresh fruits and vegetables consistently have the lowest levels of pesticides.
Asparagus
Avocadoes
Bananas
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Corn (Sweet)
Kiwi
Mangos
Onions
Papaya
Pineapples
Peas (sweet)
The Organic Center is a wonderful resource for everything you need to know about going organic.
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Posted by Matthew on 11/02/2006 at 06:11 AM
Check out Environmental Working Group’s site FoodNews.org and download an <em><b>up-to-date</b></em> wallet-sized version of the <em>Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce</em> to take with you to the grocery store. The wallet guide lists the 12 “cleanist” and “dirtiest” produce items in rank order rather than just alphabetically as above.
<a href=“http://www.ewg.org/sites/foodnews/walletguide.php” rel=“nofollow”>http://www.ewg.org/sites/foodnews/walletguide.php</a>