Description
Eat 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 removed from agriculture over the past decade. But they are not banned and still show up on some food crops.
Commodity crop corn used for animal feed and biofuels is almost all produced with genetically modified (GMO) seeds, as is some sweet corn sold for human consumption. Since GMO sweet corn is not labeled as such in US stores, EWG advises those who have concerns about GMOs to buy organic sweet corn.
practical22
May 20, 2012 10:01:36 PM
Very healthy and useful Fewer pesticides should add a few years to my miserable life
Laura
May 4, 2012 3:47:18 AM
Great:) Love having this app handy while I'm shopping! I can't afford to buy everything organic but I haves been trying to avoid the "dirty dozen" I just never remember them till now. Thanks:)
Yu
Apr 14, 2012 10:44:34 PM
HTC Wildfire I have just installed it and already love it. You can't go wrong with any app that does not requre permissions (creeping into your location, contacts, history, etc.) Plus it is exactly what I needed - a quick refference guide for my shopping. Thanks.
Shashi
Apr 9, 2012 7:01:17 PM
Handy Very easy to lookup.
jmreinke
Jan 14, 2012 7:54:25 PM
Nice! Very handy to have at the store! Search for the full list would be great, and quitting without having to back out of each page view (as most android apps do) would be nice.
B
Jan 13, 2012 10:07:36 PM
Wish there was a search option! This is great that they have such an extensive list. Wish there was a search feature so u don't have to scroll, especially when ur out shopping. Please add search function!
Jan 8, 2012 6:23:05 PM
Simple This is simple to use so it's perfect for pulling up quickly at the grocery store. Needs resolution fix for galaxy nexus as the font is waaay too small.
Jenny
Dec 30, 2011 9:51:12 PM
SD? Cool app, but can't move to SD. Had to uninstall for space moto droid
Nicole L
Dec 23, 2011 9:46:55 PM
Why can't I move it to sd? This is a cool app...but I dont see why it can't be made to be able to move it to sd card.
Melisa
Dec 19, 2011 7:47:54 PM
simple, but great reference! Ewg is awesome!