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Wednesday 2 May 2018

Do you always need to buy organic - The Clean 15


Is it worth always buying organic? My answer would be – no! It can be quite costly to afford to buy everything organic and sometimes it isn’t that important. There is a list of 15 foods that are classed as the ‘clean 15’meaning they don’t need to be bought organic as they have shown to have very low to no pesticide residue and therefore unlikely to be contaminated.

1. Sweetcorn
2. Avocados
3. Pineapple
4. Cabbage
5. Onions
6. Frozen sweet peas
7. Papayas
8. Asparagus
9. Mangos
10. Aubergine
11. Honeydew Melon
12. Kiwi
13. Cantaloupe
14. Cauliflower
15. Grapefruit

The Pesticide Data Program — run by the US Department of Agriculture test most popular foods that are eaten by children each year to formulate a list on food and its safety for consumption. The list and testing of food has been generated only in the USA where they use many pesticides that are not permitted with in the UK. It seems that our system is far more stringent on what chemicals are allowed to be used on our food.

Although the clean 15 suggests they don’t have to be bought organic It is important to remember organic produce does also use pesticides, , however,  there are only 35 approved EU organic pesticides and 389 non-organic pesticides.

One question you may be asking is why are the ‘clean 15’ so clean even though they may have just as much pesticide sprayed on them as other foods?  
It’s all in the barrier layer, their skin. Their skin is not overly porous and therefore not absorbing as many chemicals throughout the whole body of the food. With the list of the ‘clean 15’ you would remove an outer layer of leaves or skin before you get to the edible part of the food, therefore stripping back and discarding the contaminated layer.

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