When it’s okay not to buy organic
Filed under: Vegetables, Fruit, On the Blogs, Health & Medical
By now we’ve learned the drill. Organic is best. However, not everyone has the budget required to switch totally to organic foods. Thankfully Dr. Andrew Weill has put together a list of 11 fruits and vegetables that are okay to buy in their conventionally grown form. In alphabetical order, the is as follows: Asparagus, Avocados, Bananas, Broccoli, Cabbage, Corn, Kiwi, Mangos, Onions, Pineapples and Peas.
I’m guessing that most of these items are on the list because that have fairly burly skins or peels that protect them from absorbing too much in the way of pesticides. I’m a little stunned that broccoli is on the list as I would have thought that it’s many little flowers would happily soak up problematic chemicals. So there it is. Consider yourself slightly better informed about buying organic than you were five minutes ago.
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