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Top 10 Foods to Eat Organically
Excerpted from Your Organic Kitchen, by Jesse Ziff Cool.
Some conventionally grown foods are treated with more pesticides than others. Some retain more of the pesticides. Here is a list of the top 10 foods containing the most pesticides, according to the Environmental Working Group, a non-profit research group based in Washington, D.C.
You can sidestep harm and still eat vitamin-rich foods. If you cannot find these foods organically, here are some great alternatives that contain the same valuable vitamins and minerals.
High-pesticide food: Strawberries
Main nutrient: Vitamin C
Healthy alternatives: Blueberries, raspberries, oranges, grapefruit, kiwifruit, watermelon
High-pesticide food: Bell peppers
Main nutrient: Vitamin C
Healthy alternatives: Green peas, broccoli, romaine, lettuce
High-pesticide food: Spinach
Main nutrient: Vitamins A and C
Healthy alternatives: Broccoli, Brussels sprouts, asparagus
High-pesticide food: Cherries
Main nutrient: Vitamin C
Healthy alternatives: Oranges, blueberries, raspberries, kiwifruit, blackberries, grapefruit
High-pesticide food: Peaches
Main nutrient: Vitamins A and C
Healthy alternatives: Nectarines, watermelon, tangerines, oranges, grapefruit
High-pesticide food: Mexican cantaloupe
Main nutrient: Vitamins A and C
and potassium
Healthy alternatives: U.S. cantaloupe grown from May to December, watermelon
High-pesticide food: Celery
Main nutrient: Carotenoids
Healthy alternatives: Carrots, broccoli, radishes, romaine lettuce
High-pesticide food: Apples
Main nutrient: Vitamin C
Healthy alternatives: Watermelon, nectarines, bananas, tangerines
High-pesticide food: Apricots
Main nutrient: Vitamins A an C and potassium
Healthy alternatives: Nectarines, watermelon, oranges, tangerines
High-pesticide food: Green beans
Main nutrient: Potassium
Healthy alternatives: Green peas, broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, potatoes, asparagus
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hi its really interesting to know about the top ten foods to eat !
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For the remarkably few who are smart enough to wash their vegs and fruits with soap and water (at least twice), you should know that spraying these foods (after washing) with good polar minerals or other good ocean mineral water, diluted TEN TO ONE, is magnficent for something called "MAXIMUM CATION EXCHANGE," which means exchanging out some of the toxins in the fruits and vegetables for the good minerals in the mineral water, which is actually concentrated minuerals with the salt removed.
Spray the diluted mineral water onto the vegetable or fruit, let it sit for 20 or 30 seconds, then rinse off. You will rapidly notice that such foods DEFINITELY give you more, and higher quality energy.
Thank you to Care2 for raising these subjects.
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Hello... Well, I agree, that the mexican agriculture has many flaws... but: It is because of many retarded laws telling the international market how fruit must look like and feel like and how ripe it must be and so on....
IF you are in Mexico, especially in small communities, you will find mostly organic vegetables. For instance in Xochimilco, the floating gardens from Mexico City. Small producers can't afford other than sustainable agriculture.
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Sorry but DDT is still very commonly used in latin american countries. Its not only a Mexico thing. I was in Ecuador a few years back on a university research and was suprised all the pesticide they use is 99.9 DDT based. Even household bug spray sold there was 99.9 DDT. I was in Salango, and everynight we had a swarm of the weirdest brown crickets show up everywhere, thousands. The DDT did not seem to bother them or kill them. They had become resistant to it.
But you had many kids born with defects where the parents used the product at work.
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Claudia, please keep in mind that in Mexico DDT is not banned. If you don't know what DDT is look it up. The US banned it years ago because it is a very high cancer causing pesticide. I never buy fruits or veggies from Mexico.
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I'm highly surprised about the "mexican" cantaloupe... can we be in front of another acusation such as salmonella in mexican tomatoes, and then on other mexican products? I would like to see the "pesticide free" label on US cantaloupe... sorry, but I'm mexican!
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Hey very great info, My choice will be changing from now.
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This is great information that I find valuable, because these items I find in my grocery cart all the time, however, I do buy lots of organics, but sometimes I skimp on some of these above mentioned food items and purchase non organic. I always had this feeling that I should not skimp, but did it anyway. Now I know. THANK YOU!
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Please bare in mind that the amount of chemicals (pesticides, fertilizers, herbicides etc) vary not only from one type of food to another, but greatly from one climate area to another even for the same plant. I used to work in a conventional citrus orchard in the Arava dessert (before going organic). I once attended a course in pesticizing with growers from all over the south of Israel, including the Sderot Area (long before the Palestinians started firing rockets) which is closer to the shore. I was shocked at the amount of pesticides they sprayed, because we needed much less.
A few years later I gradually went organic, I live up north and buy only organic produce, most of it local.
After giving up soft drinks, most sweets, most milk products and all junk foods its no more expensive than buying conventional friuts & veggies and staying on all the non-healthy stuff.
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