It’s easy to say, “I support the environment.” Sometimes, it’s just more difficult to pay for it at the cash register. Still, your health is important to you, your family, friends and future. So, if you are trying to economize and still eat organic foods, then choose the cleanest foods in your non-organic produce.
The top listed foods for cleanliness, called the “Clean 15″ according to the Environmental Working Group tested with significantly lower herbicides and pesticides than other fruits and vegetables. It is theorized that these goodies have tough skins which repel the pesticides. However, from personal veggie gardening experience, I suggest that these plants are also quite hardy and naturally resist pestilence, thereby requiring less pesticides in commercial growing settings. (Try growing them in your garden!)
Clean 15
- Onions*
- Avocados
- Sweet corn
- Pineapples
- Mango
- Sweet Peas*
- Asparagus*
- Kiwi Fruit
- Cabbage*
- Eggplant*
- Cantaloupe
- Watermelon*
- Grapefruit
- Sweet Potatoes*
- Sweet Onions*
The starred items are those we have easily grown successfully in our mid-western soil. Try them in a corner of your flower bed.
