The Organic Center’s analysis of government data found that it’s most important to choose organic versions of produce with thin, edible skins.
It determined that the 16 items listed below have the highest dietary risk index scores, in descending order.
Vegetables
green beans
sweet bellpeppers
celery
cucumbers
potatoes
tomatoes
peas
lettuce
Fruits
cranberries
nectarines
peaches
strawberries
pears
apples
cherries
cantaloupe
The center also found that non-organic, imported produce might contain higher levels of residues than non-organic U.S. counterparts.
For more information, visit www.organic-center.org and browse the “State of Science” section.
To read the article: Pesticides and Food ~ Flying Blind (about U.S. foods), just click on the title of the article to link you there...
We are so lucky here. South Australia is a fruit fly free zone so our stone fruit is wonderful, and we can grow our own organically. We have a lovely big garden in which we grow our own organic fruit and vegetables and our eggs are free range from chickens who all have names!
ReplyDeleteYou are RICHLY blessed my friend, beyond what most of us could ever ask or imagine! God is so good and I rejoice in all He is doing in and through your lives. May He continue to prosper the work of Kym's hands and may your crops (garden and fields) always bear abundant fruit to His glory!
ReplyDeleteI continue to pray that, one day, we will have our 'land' in mostly organic edibles with city chickens (for eggs) and possibly a small beehive (honey) and now I'm hearing that some have miniature dairy goats (cheese?)... He is so able!