Wonderful, NW AZ Granny! Here’s a blurb just in from Mercola:
12 Foods You Don’t Have to Buy Organic
The Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit organization that advocates for policies that protect global and individual health, produces the Shoppers’ Guide to Pesticides in Produce. It is based on the results of nearly 43,000 pesticide tests.
Organic fruits and vegetables are by definition grown without the use of pesticides. But some find the expense of organic foods prohibitive.
Of the 43 different fruit and vegetable categories in the Guide to Pesticides, the following twelve foods had the lowest pesticide load when conventionally grown. Consequently, they are the safest conventionally grown crops to consume:
* Broccoli
* Eggplant
* Cabbage
* Banana
* Kiwi
* Asparagus
* Sweet peas (frozen)
* Mango
* Pineapple
* Sweet corn (frozen)
* Avocado
* Onion
{I’ve read that non-organic sweet potatoes are also okay to buy. ~Joya}
Hello Joya,
Glad to hear from you.
It is a good thing that I like all the items on your list.
Odd, as I would think that anything grown in the dirt, would collect any chemicals added to it.
Of course, I can’t afford to buy the ‘organic’ labels in the store, and have read that most of these products are not organic in the supermarkets, or not what we consider organic.
At $1.95 a pound for zucchini, this past week at Walmart, I will not be buying many fresh vegetables.
By December, we will be giving them for Christmas gifts, if the price keeps going up.