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The Shopper's Guide to Dirty Dozen and Clean 15

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  1. Anonymous
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    the 12 items most laden with pesticides, and should preferably be consumed organic

    Peach, Apple, Bell Pepper, Celery, Nectarine, Strawberries, cherries, Kale, Lettuce, Grapes (Imported), Carrot, Pear

    On other lists, but absent in this dirty dozen, are spinach and potato.

    and the Clean 15 (most of them have skins and are therefore 'safe')

    Onion, Avocado, Sweet Corn, Pineapple, Mango, Asparagus, Sweet Peas, Kiwi, Cabbage, Eggplant, Papaya, Watermelon, Broccoli, Tomato, Sweet Potato.

    you can download the guide here and take it with you when you go grocery shopping.
    http://www.foodnews.org/walletguide.php

    Posted 3 years ago #

  2. Anonymous
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    bee, very good info. I though that brinjals were the worst in terms of pesticide residue so much that my uncle who is a farmer refuses to eat brinjals. Bananas should be safe?

    Posted 3 years ago #

  3. Anonymous
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    anything with a thick peelable skin - bananas, mangoes (if you discard the skin), corn, etc. should be okay. oranges are okay too, but if you're using the zest, it should be organic. some florida orange peels actually have food colouring.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  4. Anonymous
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    Any idea on how to buy non-organic 15 and make them clean ? Buying all of them organic is not always possible.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  5. Anonymous
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    i do this with ALL veggies, esp potatoes. take a little scrubbing brush and a drop of dish soap and wash your veggies really well, esp. if they are waxed. i like unpeeled potatoes, but if they are not organic, peel them. and avoid imported grapes (eg. from chile). they are covered with pesticides. if you have to use them, wash them in a mild vinegar-water mixture or a potassium permanganate solution. strawberries re notorious for pesticides. peel them if you can.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  6. mamathabaloo
    Member

    I've been washing bell peppers with soapy water ever since I read that tip here. I recently tried that on grapes (from Costco) when the label specifically asked them to be washed - I think they might have been from Chile . Where we shop, we don't have a whole lot of choice of organic veggies. I try to buy organic when I can. I eat strawberries with granola almost everyday - had no idea they were the worst of the lot. I think I've seen organic ones only in wholefoods but I could never get myself to pay $9 for a small pack of strawberries.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  7. Anonymous
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    try buying frozen organic berries. fred meyer, etc. carry fresh and frozen ones. if you have a yard, grow raspberries. or blueberries. easy and they come back year after year. one season's frozen stash lasts us a whole year and our growing season is only 4 months.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  8. Anonymous
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    I think I'm not going to touch strawberries until I can grow them or can afford them

    Posted 3 years ago #

  9. Anonymous
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    Another really easy thing to do especially with grapes or berries is to let them soak in some water with a tsp or two of salt for about 1/2 hour and wash in clean water. This removes if not all most of the residues.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  10. mamathabaloo
    Member

    I wanted to buy grapes yesterday and both the stores (Costco and a popular local grocery chain)I went to had grapes only from Chile. The box specifically said, "Treated with sulfur dioxide used as fungicide". I wonder if grapes not treated with SO2 are available at all in regular grocery stores.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  11. Anonymous
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    not that i know of. all the california grapes go into winemaking and even those are heavily laced with pesticides.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  12. Anonymous
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    Washing the fruits does not guaranty that the pesticides have been "washed away' because some pesticides are so strong it surpasses the skin, stay inside the fruit.

    http://www.helium.com/items/277657-the-health-effects-of-pesticides-on-fruit-skins

    Posted 3 years ago #

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