Know your produce - The Dirty Dozen and the Clean 15

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I don’t know about you but I start to glaze over when I hit the supermarket produce section and have to decide what is an absolute must to buy organic and what is ok to go with non-organic. In a perfect world, I would buy all organic (and make that local too) produce but it can be pricey. The Environmental Working Group (EWG) issued a “Dirty Dozen” list - a list of actually 14 fruits and vegetables that should be at the top of your “buy organic” list, as well as the “Clean 15″ - a list of fruits and veggies which are lowest in pesticides.

“The Dirty Dozen”

Buy organic:

Apples
Celery
Sweet bell peppers
Peaches
Strawberries
Nectarines – imported
Grapes
Spinach
Lettuce
Cucumbers
Blueberries – domestic
Potatoes
Green beans
Kale/Greens

” The Clean 15″

Lowest in Pesticide

Onions
Sweet Corn
Pineapples
Avocado
Cabbage
Sweet peas
Asparagus
Mangoes
Eggplant
Kiwi
Cantaloupe
- domestic
Sweet potatoes
Grapefruit
Watermelon