With the arrival of summer and warmer days one thing that I love to do is peruse the local farmers market. It is important to me to buy organic & locally grown whenever possible.
Avoiding pesitcides is of key importance because they can have severe lingering effects on your body and on the earth. Pesticides are essentially toxins, can disrupt endocrine function, and possibly cause cancers. Through choosing organic fruits and vegetables you can reduce the amount of pesticide residues that build up in your body and reduce your chances of having side effects of pesticide build up. You can read more about pesticide build up in the body here or here.
So what fruits and vegitables are the most important to purchase as organics? Below is a list that the Environmental Working Group has put together on which fruits and vegitables have the greatest amount of pesticides on them "dirty dozen" and which ones have lower levels of pesticides "clean 15."
 Enviromental Working Groups List of foods with most and least pesticides |
| Environmental Working Groups list of fruits and vegetable with highest & lowest amounts of pesticides. |
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