A little FYI for your Sunday.
In these days when most people are concerned with the food they eat I feel I need to help them out as much as possible.
When you grow to the store to buy your fresh fruits and veggies this list i a good one to have with you.
These are the ‘dirtiest’ fruits and veggies….
Mama (and the US government) always said to eat your fruits and veggies, but nowhere in that conventional wisdom was there anything about getting your daily allotment of pesticides. Yet, as CNN reports, that’s exactly what some of us are inadvertently doing. The nonprofit Environmental Working Group rounds up a list of the “Dirty Dozen” most contaminated nonorganic fruits and veggies, according to the group’s testing after washing the produce in a way normal Americans might. And sorry, blueberry lovers: Your blue gold has found its way onto the 2023 list. In order of most to least contaminated:
- Strawberries
- Spinach
- Kale, collard greens, mustard greens
- Peaches
- Pears
- Nectarines
- Apples
- Grapes
- Bell and hot peppers
- Cherries
- Blueberries
- Green beans
This produce needs to be thoroughly cleaned before then are consumed.
So are all our fruits and veggies the ‘dirtiest’?
No they are not….
Tune in tomorrow for the cleanest fruits and veggies.
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
In Saner Thought 
Thankfully I grow many of these in garden.
Me as well…taste so much better home-grown chuq
In our supermarkets, all those foods mentioned are already mostly washed and packaged. We still wash any loose fruits, as they have been handled by staff and customers.
Best wishes, Pete.
A great policy….better safe than s0orry….as they say chuq
We are already pretty much pre-embalmed by all the other additives in our food so what would a little more pesticide?
I do not worry I grow much of my veggies and fruit…..so all that is not a bother for me. chuq
“pre-embalmed” I never heard it like that but it’s a legitimate characterization for most all our foods not home grown
Thank you Carl, I could not resist as I have been closely allied to the Funerary Industry in the days of my youth.