If you want to keep your bones healthy and toxin-free, there’s an easy solution: upgrade your produce game. Whenever possible, choose organic versions of fruits and veggies on the Dirty Dozen™ list. And stock up on more foods from the Clean Fifteen™ list to get maximum nutrition. I...
To minimize the impact on both the environment and own health, customers are advised to prioritize organic products for “Dirty Dozen” as they are the most contaminated with pesticides. On the other hand, “Clean 15” are the least contaminated, therefore, are of less concern when organic is...
Slightly more than 10 percent of the Clean 15 samples had two or more pesticides. No sample from the first six Clean 15 items tested positive for more than three pesticides. The Dirty Dozen List and Clean 15 List EWG’s Dirty Dozen ...
So just like with the Dirty Dozen, if you’ve been buying the above 15 items conventionally for the past year, the EWG recommends that you keep doing so. Where do the Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen lists come from?Every year since 2004, the EWG compiles a new Shopper's Guide to ...
VegKitchen regularly shares the Environmental Working Group’s annual lists of the Dirty Dozen™ and Clean Fifteen™ produce. Here are the 2018 lists.
The Bottom Line:"At the end of the day, my personal opinion is that eating enough produce is the most important thing, regardless of whether it is organic or conventionally grown," Sassos says. "Don’t let the dirty dozen list deter you from eating produce if it isn’t organic: The ...
By choosing certified organic produce that are part of the “dirty dozen”, we can avoid consuming a large amount of pesticides.“A 2006 study took 23 elementary school children off a diet of largely conventional foods and put them on an all-organic diet for five days. The researchers tested...
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We often get asked, is organic really worth it? Well, in some instances…YES! In others, it’s okay to skip out on if needed. To determine this, we often rely on theDirty Dozen and Clean 15 Lists from EWG. These lists are updated every year, and unload which produce is found to ...