A recent article looked at the 12 fruits and vegetables with the most pesticide residue.
Here is a list of the 12 least tainted foods.
- Onions
- Avocado
- Sweet Corn (frozen)
- Pineapple
- Mango
- Asparagus
- Sweet Peas (frozen)
- Kiwi
- Banana
- Cabbage
- Broccoli
- Papaya
Onions top the list as the “cleanest” produce item.
(Sources: Data from the Environmental Working Group)
Oh!yeah!
yes!
have you tried pesticide free aubergines. they’re grown on a table rather than on the ground! genius
I am kind of surprised cabbage isn’t more tainted. I think of all the bugs that like to eat that in the garden.
Yeah not where I live either, but when I lived in a hot place, I’d have to hide the onions from them. Now I have to hide the tomatoes from the cats. They love tomatoes.
Jan—we don’t get roaches where I live. I guess since onions are underground, spraying is pretty useless.
Nothing except for cockroaches, Spectra. Onions are their favorite snack, even more than sugar. You have to put onions in the fridge or you’ll get cockroaches in your kitchen, if you live in a warm location; also, when you want to trick roaches into eating poison, you mix grated onions with bread with the poison, and they gobble it up.
Oh yeah, onions are pretty clean. Nothing likes to eat them or grow on them or anything. Can’t imagine why
Same with the broccoli…lots of sulfur compounds in there that bugs don’t like.
wow, fruit you peel has less pesticide residue that fruit you don’t, who’d a thought.
You know what’s ironic? Some people will tell you not to eat Avodacos (number 2 on the list) because they are high in fat…
Hooray some good news about food!