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Fruits & Vegetables play a critical role in our health! You should be consuming 7 cups of vegetables daily!! Therefore, it's so important to make sure the fruits & vegetables we buy and consume are low in toxic, carcinogenic pesticides.

This CLEAN 15 list, shows you the top 15 produce items you may buy as non-organic because they have the lowest amounts of pesticide residues,
according to EWG’s (Environmental Working Group) analysis of the most recent USDA test data.

⚠️This is a very important list to have when shopping so 💾SAVE IT! & SHARE IT so your friends & Family can use it too!

HERE ARE SOME CLEAN 15 FACTS:
👉🏼Avocados & sweet corn were the cleanest. Fewer than 2% of samples showed any detectable pesticides.
👉🏼The first seven Clean 15 crops tested positive for three or fewer pesticides on a single sample.
👉🏼Almost 70 % of Clean Fifteen fruit and vegetable samples had no pesticide residues.
👉🏼Multiple pesticide residues are extremely rare on Clean Fifteen vegetables. Only 8 % of Clean Fifteen fruit and vegetable samples had two or more pesticides.

The 2021 EWG Guide ranks the pesticide contamination of 46 popular fruits & vegetables. It is based on results of more than 46,000 samples of produce tested by the DOA & the FDA.

Numerous peer-reviewed scientific studies have shown that consuming produce high in pesticide residues (like the items on the Dirty Dozen list - see my last post for the Dirty Dozen list)
increases the risk of many negative health impacts, and that choosing organic can have almost immediate impacts on the amount of residues in a person’s body.

SO...when buying produce, always try to select the items with the lowest pesticide residues by looking at the DIRTY DOZEN & CLEAN 15 LISTS. Buy organic versions of items on the Dirty Dozen List & either organic or non-organic versions of produce on the Clean 15 list. There are also many organic and Clean Fifteen options in the frozen food aisle.

WATCH OUT FOR GMO'S...GMOs, are most commonly found in zucchini,
yellow squash, sweet corn, papaya & apples in U.S. & Canada markets, BE AWARE that Papayas in particular are predominantly GMO! Buy organic!

Nothing like a morning Green Smoothie to start your day!! 🤗