In regards to cancer risk due to pesticides, as Dr. Greger points out, «if half the U.S. population ate just one more serving
of conventional fruits and vegetables, 20,000 cases of cancer could be prevented.
You'll also find them in meats, tap water that's been tainted by industrial waste, and in the pesticides sprayed
on conventional fruits and vegetables.
And as a NEW update - we recently switched the fruits and vegetables in Patriot Power Greens
from conventional fruits & vegetables to organic fruits and vegetables.
This means the fruit juice and sweeteners have not been exposed to chemical pesticides and fertilizers like many other candies that
contain conventional fruit juice.
And feeding your
kids conventional fruits and veggies will create a pesticide load that's way lower than the EPA's best guess about the amount that can cause harm.
Research done by the Environmental Working Group shows that consumers can lower their pesticide exposure by almost 90 % by avoiding the 12 most
contaminated conventional fruits and vegetables and eating the 12 least contaminated instead.
But because the model was
using conventional fruits and veggies the pesticide residues on those extra fruits and vegetables might result in ten additional cancer cases.
Most juice cleanses include ingredients from the Environmental Working Group's («EWG»), Dirty Dozen list - a list of the most
toxic conventional fruits and vegetables.
45, 35 - 39, 1993, and Virginia Worthington «Nutritional Quality of Organic
Versus Conventional Fruits and Vegetables», Journal of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, vol.
So, when faced with
buying conventional fruits and vegetables, it's important to remember that some are treated with more pesticides than others, and that some carry more pesticides from the field to your market as well.
We get a tremendous benefit from
eating conventional fruits and vegetables that far outweighs whatever tiny bump in risk from the pesticides, but hey, why accept any risk at all when you can choose organic?
Chuck's Produce has an extraordinary produce department, which takes about 25 % of the store and has
conventional fruits and veggies as...
The piece offers a great look at some of the science behind pesticide levels in fruits and veggies, and the conclusion is that parents shouldn't worry about whether to buy organic or
conventional fruits and veggies — we should just buy more of them.
Believe it or not,
conventional fruits and vegetables can be sources of MSG!
«A new study calculated that if half the U.S. population ate just one more serving of
conventional fruits and vegetables, 20,000 cases of cancer could be prevented.
serving can contain 2 pounds of produce — and
conventional fruits and vegetables can be treated with pesticides (especially important for the Dirty Dozen and anything that you do not remove the peel).
Organic foods are essentially free of pesticides, while nearly every type of
conventional fruit and vegetable has at least one type of pesticide applied to it sometime from when the seeds are put into the ground to when they are sold.