EAT ONLY IF ORGANIC

I have just finished reading a very interesting book,To Buy or Not to Buy Organic, by Cindy Burke. It is very educational and, at times, alarming, akin to the movie Food, Inc. in that way.

What I found most interesting and useful about this book is
the listings of vegetables and fruit according to whether they should only be eaten organic, or if non-organic is okay.

The “eat only if organic” listing consists of vegetables and
fruit which, if non-organic, are likely to have high levels of chemical residue from pesticides, fungicides, fertilizers, etc.

EAT ONLY IF ORGANIC

Apples	Grapes from Chile	Potatoes
Bell Peppers, red, green	Nectarines	Raspberries
Celery	Peaches	Spinach
Cherries	Pears	Strawberries

Burke also lists fifteen vegetables and fruit which, even when non-organically grown, are unlikely to be contaminated by chemicals.

OKAY TO EAT NON-ORGANIC

Asparagus	Cabbage	Papayas
Avocados	Garlic	Pineapples
Bananas	Kiwi	Shelling peas
Blueberries	Mangos	Sweet Corn
Broccoli	Onions	Watermelon, grown domestically (US)

At the end of the book, there is also a very useful comprehensible listing of vegetables, herbs and spices, and fruit, marked
according to whether the item should be eaten only organic, or if it is okay to eat non-organic.

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