Dirty Dozen

Have you heard of the dirty dozen before? The dirty dozen is produce with the most pesticide in them.
These pesticides are damaging to your health. Pesticides are used to to control weeds, pests bacteria, mold and fungus that damage crop production. The Pesticides then find their way into the produce and from there into your diet. This use of pesticides correlates with our post from yesterday that talked about nutrition of foods.
Grain and wheat have been found to carry a large amount of pesticides.
More information from the EPA about this topic can be found at:https://www.epa.gov/safepestcontrol/food-and-pesticides