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If you can’t go organic: Search out grapes grown domestically; they are treated with fewer chemicals.

Green Beans

The Environmental Protection Agency has more than 60 pesticides registered for use on green beans.

If you can’t go organic: Choose fresh beans over canned or frozen. Wash them well.

Spinach

In a certain cartoon, spinach makes muscles. In real life, the chemicals used to treat it may cause cancer or interfere with hormone production.

If you can’t go organic: Vigilantly wash each leaf separately under running water.

Strawberries

Strawberries are one of the most contaminated of all produce items in the United States.

If you can’t go organic: Choose local berries over long-distance ones (which generally involve more spraying). The package should say where they’re from, or the supermarket’s produce manager should know.

Winter Squash

Like cantaloupes and cucumbers, winter squash has a propensity to absorb dieldrin from the soil into its edible parts.

If you can’t go organic: Buy squash grown in Mexico – the soil there is largely uncontaminated by dieldrin.

…and we didn’t forget! Remember what we said about apples containing more pesticides than just about any other produce? Well, if you can’t buy organic apples, peel the ones you have. Also, look for apples from New Zealand, which are treated with half as many pesticides as those grown in the U.S.

7 Organic Fruits & Veggies Worth The Money  was originally published on blackdoctor.org

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