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Category: > Health > Produce With The Highest Pesticide Levels (Plus A Shopper’s Guide!)

Produce With The Highest Pesticide Levels (Plus A Shopper’s Guide!)

Apr 3, 2013 Carly Fraser Save For Later Print

Last Updated: Apr 10, 2020

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Eating organic produce can be expensive, especially depending on the time of year, and where you live. Although I advocate to eat as much organic produce as possible, sometimes that just isn’t possible. Organic foods, overall, will have higher nutrition because the soil they are grown in is more mineral dense, and they are not sprayed with chemicals that are harmful to the human body.

You have probably heard of the “dirty dozen” and “clean 15” at some point in your life. The Dirty Dozen are the fruit and vegetables that are most contaminated with pesticides, and should always be bought organic (you would never catch me eating one of these plants non-organic). The Clean Fifteen are those plant foods which are least likely to test positive for pesticides, thus, you can safely buy these foods non-organically.

Analyses of American produce have shown that if you choose five servings of fresh produce from the Clean Fifteen rather than the Dirty Dozen, you can lower the amount of pesticides you consume by 92%!

Below is a shopper’s guide to pesticides in produce which you can print out and bring with you to the grocery store to help guide you on which fruit and vegetables to buy organic. By clicking on the image below, you will be brought to another page which will bring up a much larger version of the shopping list. 

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Click the image above to get a full-sized PDF that you can print out and bring with you to the grocery store!
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Filed Under: Food Education, Health, Pesticides Tagged With: dirty dozen, organic, pesticides

Carly Fraser

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Carly Fraser has her BSc (Hons.) Degree in Neuroscience, and is the owner and founder at Live Love Fruit. She currently lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with a determined life mission to help inspire and motivate individuals to critically think about what they put in their bodies and to find balance through nutrition and lifestyle. She has helped hundreds of thousands of individuals to re-connect with their bodies and learn self-love through proper eating habits and natural living. She loves to do yoga, dance, and immerse herself in nature.

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  1. tk says

    Apr 4, 2013 at 12:35 pm

    please email your articles to me thank you

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    • Carly Fraser says

      Apr 13, 2013 at 2:42 pm

      You can subscribe to me on the front of the Live Love Fruit page, in the bottom right corner (home page).

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  2. pi karttunen-lindroos says

    May 18, 2013 at 2:29 am

    hello from finland – this time of year the nature never sleeps — found yr page while going though relatives .. beautiful nature in beautiful colours, thank you:)

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  1. 10 Of The Most Common Juicing Mistakes (and How To Avoid Them!) - Live Love Fruit says:
    Jan 2, 2015 at 3:36 am

    […] of nasty pesticides and herbicides. This can often mean more pricey produce, but if you want to check out this shopping guide for the dirty dozen and clean fifteen, then you can easily make a juice that is low on chemical […]

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  2. You CAN Get From Here To There | YOU Are The Gift says:
    Oct 20, 2015 at 9:42 am

    […] of the store.  The fresh fruits and veggies (organic but for the clean 15, when possible; READ HERE FOR THE CLEAN 15 ) and fresh meat and dairy (again look for organic) are where to focus. The aisles have mostly […]

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