The Environmental Working Group (EWG)releasedits 2024Dirty Dozenlist, a “Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce,” and it serves as a solid reminder that we still have a lot of work to do when it comes to cleaning up the food system. This year, the report found that nearly 75 perc...
The 2020 Clean Fifteen actually contains the same 15 items as 2019’s list — but the order is a bit different. 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 ...
Kiwi 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: ...
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...
2023 Dirty DozenTM& Clean 15TMLists This year’s ‘dirtiest’ foods were strawberries, spinach, and kale. And yuck, they werereallydirty! In fact, kale (along with hot peppers, bell peppers, and collard and mustard greens) had the most pesticides detected of any crop — a whopping 103 ...
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...
VegKitchen regularly shares the Environmental Working Group’s annual lists of the Dirty Dozen™ and Clean Fifteen™ produce. Here are the 2018 lists.
under water in just a few dozen years. Another serious problem is (8)w ater pollution.We can only use 3 percent of the earth's water. (9)B ut people throw trash and pour dirty water into rivers and the sea. Almost 884 million people don't have clean wate...
Dirty Dozen 草莓(strawberry) 苹果(apple) 油桃(nectarine) 桃子(peach) 芹菜(celery) 葡萄(grape) 樱桃(cherry) 菠菜(spinach) 番茄(tomato) 青椒(sweet bell pepper) 樱桃小番茄(cherry tomato) 黄瓜(cucumber) + 辣椒(hot pepper) 羽衣甘蓝(kale/collard greens) ...