The Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce

If you are interested in learning more about how to protect yourself and your loved ones from environmental toxins like pesticides, please go to the Environmental Working Group‘s website to educate yourself. It’s chock full of great information and you will likely be surprised by what you find out. Make a change for a better life! 

Check out the graphic below on the #1 offender, conventional strawberries.

Start with something easy. Just knowing which produce has the most pesticides will help guide you to buy organic. Take a look at the Dirty Dozen list.

* A small amount of sweet corn, papaya and summer squash sold in the United States is produced from genetically modified seeds. Buy organic varieties of these crops if you want to avoid genetically modified produce.