The 12 Best Foods to Eat Organic
The produce aisles of major grocery stores have exploded with options from locally grown seasonal fruits and vegetables to exotic imports. While adding more fruits and veggies to your diet is a healthy choice, it’s beneficial to understand the difference between organic and non-organic produce to make sure you’re making an optimal choice for your health. What you learn may affect what you buy!
While all fruits and vegetables have healthy benefits, organic foods are shown to contain higher amounts of nutrients, are grown without harmful pesticides, and aren’t genetically modified. The disadvantage for some is that organic food is often more costly. This makes it difficult to eat completely organic, especially when you’re on a budget.
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) compiles a list each year called the Dirty Dozen and the Clean 15. These lists contain the most and least contaminated fruits and vegetables, respectively. These informative guides can help you decide which fruits and veggies are best to buy organic, and which ones are okay to buy non-organic.
Dirty Dozen
This list contains the 12 fruits and vegetables MOST likely to contain pesticides – some of which can have 9 different pesticides in a single serving! To avoid ingesting concentrated amounts of pesticides, it’s best to buy these foods organic.
- Peaches
- Strawberries
- Apples
- Kale/collard greens
- Lettuce
- Celery
- Sweet bell peppers
- Grapes (imported)
- Nectarines (imported)
- Blueberries (domestic)
- Spinach
- Potatoes
Clean 15
This list contains the fruits and vegetables LEAST likely to contain pesticides and, therefore, would be okay to buy non-organic.
- Onions
- Asparagus
- Watermelons
- Avocadoes
- Sweet peas
- Broccoli
- Sweet corn
- Kiwi
- Cantaloupe (domestic)
- Pineapples
- Cabbage
- Sweet potatoes
- Mangoes
- Grapefruits
- Eggplant
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