Every year the Environmental Working Group (EWG) analyzes around 50 "conventionally grown" (ie, pesticide-ridden) fruits and vegetables to see which are the safest and which are the most dangerous.
This year's list just came out. This year's "dirty dozen," the 12 worst in terms of pesticides, are (from the highest pesticide levels to lower ones): peach, apple, sweet bell pepper, celery, nectarine, strawberry, cherry, kale, lettuce, imported grapes, carrot, and pear.
The EWG produces a wallet sized print out of these dirty dozen (as well as the "clean fifteen," the least pesticide-ridden of the 47 analyzed fruits and vegetables this year) that you can bring with you when you go shopping. That might be a good idea, actually, until you have these more or less memorized. The point is, you should try to always buy the "dirty dozen" organically grown!
Of course, a dozen is an arbitrary cut-off point. Not that much difference between twelveth and thirteenth places, after all. Check out the whole list here.
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