Dirty Dozen and the Clean Fifteen
It’s tough to get through the grocery store these days. Organic or not? Farm raised? Local? Packed in plastic? Flown in from Argentina? Full of salt? Full of sugar? You forgot your BAG? A screaming toddler is the least of your worries.
We’re not experts with a Ph.D. in food science but one thing we’re feeling pretty confident about is that pesticides are not something we want to ingest and we certainly don’t want our developing children to ingest them from our beloved F&V (fruits and veggies).
So to make it easy for us moms, the Environmental Working Group came out with lists of the best and worst fruits and veggies to buy for your family (from a pesticide level perspective, of course). They are called the Dirty Dozen and the Clean 15 and we’ve got them here for you as well. You can even download the list onto your iPhone or keep a PDF of it with you for shopping reference here.
What’s the word? Well, sadly fruits beat out veggies with seven of the 12 items in the ‘Dirty Dozen’ listed as fruits. These seven were listed in order of severity: peaches, apples, nectarines and strawberries, cherries, imported grapes, and pears. The rest of the dirty gang is made up of some of our fave veggies: sweet bell peppers, celery, kale, lettuce, and carrots are the vegetables most likely to expose consumers to pesticides (in the same order).
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