Five Seasons Women’s Wellness: Health and Wellness Blog

A 100% organic diet is ideal, but due to the cost and availability of many organic items, it is simply unrealistic for most of us.  Eating a mixture of organic foods, and foods produced with fewer pesticides may be the next best thing.

The Environmental Working Group investigated pesticide contamination of conventional produce and found that people can lower their pesticide exposure by almost 80 percent by avoiding the top twelve most contaminated fruits and vegetables and eating the least contaminated instead.

The “dirty dozen” include: peaches, apples, pears, bell peppers, celery, carrots, nectarines, strawberries, cherries, kale, lettuce and imported grapes.

The “clean fifteen” include: onions, sweet corn, asparagus, sweet peas, cabbage, eggplant, broccoli, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, avocados, pineapples, mangoes, kiwi, papayas, watermelon and grapefruit.

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