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Check out EWG's Dirty Dozen list to help decide when you should splurge for organic produce – part of our annual Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce™.
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The Full List; The Dirty Dozen™ ... wallet guide FREE to say...
- Clean Fifteen
Check out EWG's Clean Fifteen list to help decide when you...
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EWG’s 2024 Dirty Dozen™ is loaded with fungicides that can...
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It includes two well-known lists: the Dirty Dozen™, the 12...
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EWG’s 2024 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce™: The...
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- The Dirty Dozen 2020
- The Clean Fifteen 2020
- The Full List: EWG’s 2020 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce
- Free Printable Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen List
- Final Thoughts on The Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen
Back to my first question: Do you know which foods are most important to buy organic? Ideally, the foods with the most pesticide residues are the ones you want to buy organic so you can avoid as many harmful chemicals as possible. You can use The Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen list to help you decide which foods to buy organic. The fruit...
What about my second question: Do you know which foods you don’t need to buy organic? Believe it or not, some organic foods aren’t worth the money because the non-organic versions don’t have a lot of pesticide residues on them. You can use the Clean Fifteen to determine which non-organic foods are safe to eat. The fruits and vegetables on this list...
The Environmental Working Group actually tests 47 popular fruits and vegetables for pesticide residues, although many of them don’t show up in the official Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen ranks. However, they do have a full list with all of those fruits and vegetables listed in the order of dirtiest (most pesticide residues) to cleanest (least pestic...
The Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen lists are super helpful when you aren’t sure which fruits and vegetables you should buy organic, which is why I like to keep a cheat sheet on hand so I don’t have to Google the lists every time I want to reference them. If you’d like to have a pretty printable list too, you can download a copy of mine here:
So now you know what to buy organic in 2020! The Dirty Dozen are the foods with the most pesticide residues, so those are the ones you should buy organic if you can. But there are plenty of foods you don’t need to buy organic. The Clean Fifteen are the fruits and vegetables with the lowest pesticide residues, so those are okay to buy non-organic. A...
Mar 21, 2024 · Here's what's on the most recent EWG Dirty Dozen and Clean 15 lists, which list the fruits and veggies with the most and least amount of pesticide residue.
EWG'S 2024 CLEAN FIFTEEN 1. Sweet corn 2. Avocados 3. Pineapple 4. Onions 5. Papaya 6. Sweet peas 7. Asparagus 8. Honeydew melon 9. Kiwi 10. 11.
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™.
Feb 13, 2013 · The Environmental Working Group came up with these lists as a way to show consumers which produce has the most pesticide residue (the dirty dozen) and which are considered to be the most free of pesticide residue the clean fifteen).
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Here are the most up-to-date Dirty Dozen and Clean 15 lists: The Dirty Dozen (2023) Buy these organic whenever possible – Updated March 2023: Strawberries. Spinach. Kale, collard and mustard greens. Peaches. Pears. Nectarines. Apples. Grapes.
