Top Fruits And Vegetable To Buy Organic

With today’s society slowly edging itself to a greener existence, progress is moving at a snails pace, but at least it’s moving in the right direction.

When it comes to foods like fruits and vegetables though, health regulations seem to be slow on getting farmers to stop using pesticides that are harmful to humans on their crops.

Why this is such a big concern is because certain fruits and vegetables hold onto the pesticides better than others, and therefore become more of a risk to you and your family.

Pesticides like Thiabendazole, Acephate, Benomyl, Chlorothalonil, and Methamidophos, which can damage the brain and nervous system, and cause birth defects can often be found in fruit and vegetables that you consume regularly.

Mostly these lethal foods are fruits with skin that you eat, like grapes or apples that are the most dangerous. This is because the pesticides get embedded in the skin, and then you consume it with the fruit.

Oranges and bananas are less problematic because you peel the skin off.

In particular, children are the most susceptible to pesticides in foods. They eat more than adults relative to their body weight, and since children’s detoxification systems aren’t fully developed, they accumulate chemicals over a longer period of time and in greater amounts.

These fruits and vegetables can cause a serious health risk, so here is a list of the fruits and vegetables that you should watch for, and only eat organically:

1. Peaches:

The worst of all the foods, and has been found to have the highest levels of pesticides

2. Apples

3. Pears

4. Winter Squash

5. Green Beans:

Trouble with a capital T. Contain the worst of the worst pesticides.

6. Grapes

7. Green and Red Bell Peppers

8. Strawberries:

Loaded with pesticides that are hard to wash off because of the relatively small size of the fruit.

9. Raspberries:

Similar issue with the strawberries.

10. Spinach

11. Potatoes

12. Tomatoes

13. Carrots

14. Cantaloupe

15. Cucumbers

16. Celery

17. Corn:

Bad news because bugs love it and because it they are now often genetically modified.

18. Lemons

19. Limes

If you haven’t made the switch to organics yet, maybe it’s because you didn’t really understand the health risks that many of these foods can possess.

Now that you’ve seen the list, and recognize the threat, think of your family and make the right choice: Start buying organic.