Best produce to purchase organic

summer is a time to delight in the bounty of nature in the form of fresh fruit and vegetables.  However, with the enhancing research showing the harmful effects of pesticides used on our produce, do you dare to eat a non-organic peach?

Should I purchase organic Produce?

Not all fruits and vegetables have the same pesticide load.  By shopping carefully and purchasing organic versions of those fruits and vegetable many likely to include pesticides in their conventional form, you can decrease your risk of ingesting potentially harmful chemicals.

The best produce to purchase Organic

Peaches

Apples

Strawberries

Cherries

Imported grapes

Pears

Sweet bell peppers

Celery

Lettuce

The best Non-organic Produce

The produce least likely to be contaminated by pesticides, and thus safest to purchase conventional versions of, includes much more vegetables than fruit. many have skin or a peel that even more protects from potential pesticides. Topping the list with least traces of pesticides are:

Onions

Asparagus

Cabbage

Avocado

Mango

Kiwi

Bananas

Pineapple

Use these lists as a guideline and delight in your fruit and veggies!

Amber doesn’t care for fruits or veggies, but she says she’s heard some kitties actually delight in them.  Does your cat like fruits or veggies?  Which ones?

Ingrid King

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4 comments on best produce to purchase Organic

Satyabroto Banerji says:

July 22, 2009 at 9:16 am

Community supported Agriculture beats the organic route to food safety. It is a fallacy to think that anything grown without chemicals has to be safe. consider heavy metals, pathogens, and steroids. They can land up on and inside organic produce. Conversely, fruits and grains grown under chemical plant protection regimes will have no harmful residues if growers observe label directions.

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Organic trade says:

July 12, 2009 at 4:25 pm

You raise some valid points about when to purchase organic. However, the organic trade association (OTA) would caution people against the idea of limiting their organic purchases to the list of items you outline in this blog. While establishing such limits may help to decrease the size of your personal food budget, it misses an essential point: purchasing organic is about much more than keeping pesticides out of our bodies. It is about supporting a system of sustainable agricultural management that promotes soil health and fertility through the use of such methods as crop rotation and cover cropping, which nourish plants, foster species diversity, help combat climate change, avoid damage to important water resources, and safeguard farmers and farmers’ families from exposure to harmful chemicals. In this sense, purchasing organic is a commitment to the bigger, much more complex picture of which our personal health is a part.

OTA would also encourage people to consider that organic provides a range of benefits that non-organic local products do not. because they are regulated by the federal government, products bearing the organic label should meet a strict set of production/handling guidelines. They should be made without the use of toxic and persistent pesticides, hormones, antibiotics, and genetic engineering. Additionally, they should not undergo irradiation or include ingredients made from cloned animals. local products are not held to any such standards, and for that reason cannot be counted on to meet any of the aforementioned criteria. And, because the term “local” is itself undefined, no guarantees can be made about whether a product is, indeed, local!

Organic products are also distinct with respect to traceability. In purchase to meet federal regulations, careful records should be kept about every phase of organic production. This implies that everything from the source of the seeds to the way the products are placed on store shelves should be documented. Moreover, each of these steps should be verifiable by a third party. local products, by contrast, are neither required to offer such documentation nor to undergo third-party review. As such, no guarantees can be made about where local products come from or how they are handled.

Does this imply you ought to abandon purchasing locally made products? Not at all. Instead, it implies you ought to be thoughtful about the local products you choose to buy. If they are labeled organic, you can feel confident that they have been produced in a manner that not only supports personal and environmental health, but also helps to guarantee product integrity from the farm to your family.

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Ingrid says:

July 10, 2009 at 2:19 pm

Thanks for yournull