Do You Like Your Fruits & Veggies With Or WithOUT Pesticides?
The Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen list of fruits and vegetables was released. The Dirty Dozen includes the produce with the most pesticides. Strawberries topped the list. One sample of…
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Suzi Pratt/Getty Images for Barneys New YorkThe Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen list of fruits and vegetables was released. The Dirty Dozen includes the produce with the most pesticides. Strawberries topped the list. One sample of strawberries was found to have 22 pesticide residues.
Here are the top five on The Dirty Dozen:
Strawberries
Spinach
Nectarines
Apples
Grapes
Which veggies and fruits are not covered with lots of pesticides?
Here are the five that earned the highest marks on the Clean Fifteen:
Avocados
Sweet corn
Pineapples
Cabbages
Onions
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