DescriptionEat your fruits and vegetables! The health benefits
of a diet rich in fruits and vegetables outweigh the risks of
pesticide exposure. Use EWG's Shopper's Guide to Pesticides™ to
reduce your exposures as much as possible, but eating
conventionally-grown produce is far better than not eating
fruits and vegetables at all. The Shopper's Guide to Pesticides
in Produce™ will help you determine which fruits and vegetables
have the most pesticide residues and are the most important to
buy organic. You can lower your pesticide intake substantially
by avoiding the 12 most contaminated fruits and vegetables and
eating the least contaminated produce. This year we have
expanded the Dirty Dozen™ with a Plus category to highlight two
crops -- green beans and leafy greens, meaning, kale and collard
greens - that did not meet traditional Dirty Dozen ™criteria but
were commonly contaminated with highly toxic organophosphate
insecticides. These insecticides are toxic to the nervous system
and have been largely remove