Make Informed Choices - Organic? or Conventionally Grown?

Cleansing Secret #12 Buy Organically Grown - Most of the Time!
Buy organically grown produce, especially when you’re on your cleanse. Your cleanse is helping your body remove toxins, so don’t add more with pesticide residue that remains on and in commercially grown produce.

Doesn’t washing or peeling remove all the pesticides? Nope. Both help, but no one can say that pesticides, sprayed on fruit and veggies periodically while they grow, can be removed completely. You can reduce the risk to your health and that of your family when you make informed choices.

The Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit organization that advocates for policies that protect global and individual health, produces the Shoppers' Guide to Pesticides in Produce. The guide is based on the results of nearly 87,000 pesticide tests.

The following are listed in descending order of pesticide concentration and toxicity…worst to best, so make sure to buy these fruits and veggies organically grown:

1. Peach
2. Apple
3. Bell Pepper
4. Celery
5. Nectarine
6. Strawberries
7. Cherries
8. Kale
9. Lettuce
10. Grapes (Imported)
11. Carrot
12. Pear

Of the 43 different fruit and vegetable categories in the Guide to Pesticides, the following fifteen foods had the lowest pesticide load when conventionally grown. They are the safest conventionally grown crops to consume:
1. Onion
2. Avocado
3. Sweet Corn
4. Pineapple
5. Mango
6. Asparagus
7. Sweet Peas
8. Kiwi
9. Cabbage
10. Eggplant
11. Papaya
12. Watermelon
13. Broccoli
14. Tomato
15. Sweet Potato

Want to experience optimal health? Transition to the hot new trend of 'Eating Raw' with the new e-cookbook I've co-written: www.TotalWellnessMatters.com