ALL 48 FRUITS AND VEGETABLES WITH PESTICIDE RESIDUE DATA

EWG analyzed pesticide residue testing data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Food and Drug Administration to come up with rankings for the following popular fresh produce items. All 48 foods are listed below from worst to best – lower numbers indicate more pesticides.

Note: EWG analyzed pesticide tests of 48 popular produce items. Domestic and imported versions of two items – blueberries, green beans and snap peas – showed sharply different results, so we have ranked those domestic and imported items separately. As a result, the Shopper’s Guide displays 51 entries. Find out more at: https://www.ewg.org/foodnews/list.php#.Wbp0L8iGOyJ

Is it really Organic?

What You Need to Know About Organic Fraud in the U.S. — And Why It’s So Important to Take Action to Protect Organic Standards, click the link.

What You Need to Know About Organic Fraud in the U.S. — And Why It’s So Important to Take Action to Protect Organic Standards

Battling inflammation, disease through food

Though it’s an emerging field, proponents of anti-inflammatory diets point to growing evidence that foods like vegetables and fish can ease an overactive immune system. Check it out the article here:

http://articles.latimes.com/2009/aug/17/health/he-anti-inflammation17

What does it take to be number one?

Inspiration always comes from the bold and the daring. Why? Because they dream of things that others find impossible, wrong or downright silly.

They are fearless of being depicted as failures, of being ridiculed, of being rejected, of being embarrassed, or being played for a fool.

 

(Fame to Claim: http://ow.ly/KHMj30bUU78)