Shopper’s Guide to Produce

How do you know when to buy organic or generic? Does it really matter? 

Ideally, we would all always buy organic produce because who wants to constantly risk eating the chemical laden stuff?  We intake plenty of toxins throughout our day in our environment without eating them.

But as we all know, buying organic comes at a cost so to help you save money and shop smarter, the Environmental Working Group puts for guidelines on this very subject called “The Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce” to help consumers know which are more prone to lots of pesticides and which we can get away with buying non-organic. 

Click on Dirty Dozen or Clean Fifteen below to print a PDF to keep on your fridge!

To read the entire report click here.

EWG'S DIRTY DOZEN

Strawberries

Spinach

Kale

Nectarines

Apples

Grapes

Peaches

Cherries

Pears

Tomatoes

Celery

Potatoes

EWG'S CLEAN FIFTEEN

Avocados

Sweet corn

Pineapples

Frozen sweet peas

Onions

Papayas

Eggplants

Asparagus

Kiwis

Cabbages

Cauliflower

Cantaloupes

Broccoli

Mushrooms

Honeydew melons

Relatively few pesticides were detected on these foods, and tests found low total concentrations of pesticide residues.