There are so many dos and donts to buying organic foods. Some foods top the list on what you must buy organic, and then they drop off the list. Why?
A couple months ago, I was listening to the radio and they talked about which produce should be bought organic vs conventional. Then I heard organic potatoes should always be purchased and that even farmers wouldn’t even eat the potatoes they sell. Rather, they’ll set up their own plot of organic potatoes.
According to The Daily Green, one of the most trusted sources on the Web for news and information about going green:
America’s popular spud re-appears on the 2010 dirty dozen list, after a year hiatus. America’s favorite vegetable can be laced with as many as 37 different pesticides.
37 pesticides!!! You may be thinking: I peel the skin off my potatoes so I should be fine. I did more research and found that because potatoes are a root vegetable, it absorbs its nutrients from the soil, as well as the herbicides, pesticides, and fungicides that wind up in soil.
Just wonderful, huh?
Here’s a nice experiment you could try out:
Get a conventional potato and an organic potato. See which one sprouts.
Sources:
http://www.thedailygreen.com/healthy-eating/eat-safe/Dirty-Dozen-Foods#ixzz16chdec9S
http://www.progressive.org/mag/intv1108
