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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Five Foods to Eat Organic

Going organic can be an expensive transition if you live in a small area where health food stores aren’t easily accessible. But going organic is really important if you value your and your family’s health.

Going organic completely would be one of the ultimate goals of a green citizen, but if you’re slowly getting there, then there are some organic foods that you should immediately switch to.

1. Apples: Bananas are the most commonly eaten fresh food in the United States, but apples come in a close second place. Apples are also the second most commonly used fruit in juices – right after oranges. Apples are something that many families reach for when looking for a healthy snack, yet they are one the most pesticide-infested fruits grown. Fortunately, this fruit can be found organic in many regular grocery stores.

2. Milk: Getting a sufficient amount of calcium into children and young adults has become very important in the past 10 years via the “Got Milk?” campaign. Therefore, if you’re a parent, you are always trying to get your kids to drink milk in anyway possible. Unfortunately, drinking milk typically means you’re drinking an entire chemical system of agriculture. Non-organic milk contains nasty antibiotics, artificial hormones and pesticides that have been used in the milk creating and producing process.

3. Potatoes: The unchallenged staple of the American diet are potatoes. Some surveys have shown that potatoes make up at least 30 percent of families’ vegetable intake. Switching to organic potatoes could potentially have a huge effect on your family’s health and on the nation. Potatoes are the most pesticide-contaminated vegetables in the country. And even after washing and peeling potatoes, many still have traceable amounts of pesticides.

4. Ketchup: In many American households, ketchup makes up the vast majority of their vegetable consumption. Yet ketchup is so processed that all the nutrients the tomatoes in the product originally had are now virtually gone. Thankfully, studies have shown that organic ketchup has approximately double the antioxidants that non-organic ketchup has.

5. Peanut Butter: Many kids love to snack on peanut butter, whether it’s straight from the jar or mixed with some other yummy food. More acres are used to grow peanuts in the United States than any other vegetable, nut or fruit. Sadly, nearly 99 percent of these acres have farming methods that include the use of pesticide and fungicides. Fortunately, some of the major peanut butter brands are now creating organic versions.

Scientists have found these five foods to contain some of the most pesticides of all foods. They also are some of the most used foods for families – even more reason to switch to their organic varieties.

Fruits and vegetables seem like a natural choice, but they’re actually much less pesticide-ridden than these other foods. Foods like broccoli, onions, bananas, oranges, avocados, and asparagus actually have relatively low pesticide levels. So get yourself to the nearest food store and pick up these organic foods.