Eat your fruits and vegetables! The health benefits of a diet rich in
fruits and vegetables outweigh the risks of pesticide exposure. Use
EWG's Shopper's Guide to Pesticides
™ to reduce your exposures
as much as possible, but eating conventionally-grown produce is far
better than not eating fruits and vegetables at all. The Shopper's Guide
to Pesticides in Produce
™ will help you determine which
fruits and vegetables have the most pesticide residues and are the most
important to buy organic. You can lower your pesticide intake
substantially by avoiding the 12 most contaminated fruits and vegetables
and eating the least contaminated produce. -© 2012, Environmental Working Group
The dirty dozen has been expanded to include two crops of note: green beans and kale/greens:
- Apples
- Celery
- Sweet bell peppers
- Peaches
- Strawberries
- Grapes
- Spinach
- Lettuce
- Potatoes
- Cucumbers
- Blueberries (domestic)
- Potatoes
- *Green beans
- *Kale/greens
*May contain pesticide residues of special concern
For a list of the Clean 15, click
here!
