Pesticides in Produce: Shoppers Guide

The Environmental Working group has posted their latest list of foods with the highest detected levels of pesticides. They recommend you buy these “dirty dozen” as organic.

  1. Apples
  2. Celery
  3. Strawberries
  4. Peaches
  5. Spinach
  6. Nectarines – imported
  7. Grapes – imported
  8. Sweet bell peppers
  9. Potatoes
  10. Blueberries – domestic
  11. Lettuce
  12. Kale/collard greens

Speaking of details, I could not help but wonder why the image tag and filename for #9 is “Potatoe

http://static.ewg.org/reports/2011/foodnews/img/potatoe.jpg

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