Dirty Dozen And Clean 15 Food List

The 2020 clean fifteen actually contains the same 15 items as 2019 s list but the order is a bit different.

Dirty dozen and clean 15 food list. Strawberries are high on the contamination list again this year but spinach and pears were also highlighted for extreme pesticide residues. Check out ewg s dirty dozen and clean fifteen lists to help decide when you should splurge for organic fruits and vegetables and when you should save money by buying conventional. Source the environmental working group also suggests another reason to look to buy the clean 15 foods when they are organically grown is because. Every year since 2004 the environmental working group ewg has compiled a list of the clean fifteen and dirty dozen foods list or the fruits and vegetables which have the highest amount of pesticides when grown conventionally versus organically grown.

Alternatively the clean fifteen refers to fifteen crops that use the least amount of pesticides. Ratings for more than 120 000 food and personal care products now at your fingertips. Avocados sweet corn and pineapple made the clean fifteen list. Ewg released its annual dirty dozen and clean 15 lists highlighting the fruits and vegetables most and least likely to harbor pesticide residues.

Small amount of sweet corn papaya and summer squash sold in the united states is produced from genetically modified seeds. Department of agriculture which routinely tests. These lists were compiled using data. The dirty dozen is a phrase that refers to 12 dirty crops that farmers use the most pesticides on.

In 2019 strawberries spinach and kale top the list. Check out ewg s clean fifteen list to help decide when you can save money by buying conventional fruits and vegetables part of our annual shopper s guide to pesticides in produce. 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.