Top 10 Foods To Buy Organic

[SparklingWaves]

If you don't want to eat pesticides, herbicides, hormones, antibiotics, or heavy metals, you'd do well to buy the following grown or raised organically, and here's why:

1. Meats: Animals store high concentrations of chemicals in their fatty tissues.

2. Dairy products: Rich in fats, they store harmful chemicals.

3. Fish: Farmed fish often carry high levels of contaminants.

4. Berries: Their thin skins absorb harmful chemicals.

5. Mushrooms: Conventional growers use powerful fungicides on them.

6. Salad Crops: Lettuce, spinach, and celery are highly sprayed.

7. Root Crops: Carrots, etc., are sprayed. The parts you eat may contain chemicals.

8. Waxed Fruit: Wax locks in pesticides and makes them difficult to wash off.

9. Bananas: Foreign plantations can use 20 times more pesticides than U.S. farms.

10. Coffee & tea: Hot-water brewing can concentrate residual pesticides.

From Living Green by Greg Horn (Freedom Press, Inc., freedompressonline.com)

 

[NutMeg]

Good to know for when I`ll be doing my own grocery shopping (soon!). Thanks SparklingWaves, you always have such interesting articles to post.

 

[ratmist]

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Originally Posted by SparklingWaves 10. Coffee & tea: Hot-water brewing can concentrate residual pesticides.

These should always be Fair Trade as well as organic. Same goes for chocolate.

 

[lsperry]

Very interesting information.....Thanks for posting....

 

[Shimmer]

So basically everything then? Got it.

 

[Cosmopolitics]

Also, organic food tastes better, especially organic meat. Plus, it's always good to know that the animals raised to make organic meat lived a happy, healthy life.

 

[Juneplum]

^ so true.. DH and I recently started switching over to organic products and they do taste better! we noticed it immediately..

 

[Divinity]

I notice the difference especially in milk and meats.

 

[SparklingWaves]

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Originally Posted by Shimmer So basically everything then? Got it.

LOL

 

[SparklingWaves]

Totally agree. There is a difference in taste.

 

[Hilly]

Thanks! I buy organic milk because the expiration date is longer!!!

 

[SparklingWaves]

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Originally Posted by Hilly Thanks! I buy organic milk because the expiration date is longer!!!

That's exactly what I do.

 

[ellyd_hert]

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Originally Posted by Divinity I notice the difference especially in milk and meats.

Really? I might have to try some then. I have only tried vegetables and dry foods.

 

[SparklingWaves]

ellyd_hert, check it out and let us know what you think.

 

[Joyness]

Thanks for this! I've been trying to buy more organic but can't afford to buy everything organic. Its great to know which items it makes the biggest difference for! I've been buying organic milk (wanted to get away from the hormones) but hadn't even thought about meat.

 

[frocher]

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[Switz1880]

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Originally Posted by Cosmopolitics Also, organic food tastes better, especially organic meat. Plus, it's always good to know that the animals raised to make organic meat lived a happy, healthy life.

I do agree that organic food does taste better, however, animals that are raised organically do not necessarily live "happy" or "healthy" lives. For example, if you eat free range chicken, that chicken may have had a few moments not crowded in a chicken coop. Same goes for all our other meat sources. And sometimes, the worst part about all this, is how the animals are slaughtered and the lack of respect those handling our food have for the lives they are taking.

 

[SparklingWaves]

Instead of ground meat, I have been buying Morning Star Meal Starters. I use it in place of ground meat. It's so easy to use.

For chicken sandwiches & hamburgers, I buy the Boca Brand. I put them on buns with salad.

I like Vanilla flavored soy or rice milk. Also, they have been adding fiber to the soy milk. I am hooked on it.

I do once in a great while buy meat, but I will go out of my way to find organic.

 

[frocher]

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[Switz1880]

Eating soy and other non-meat products is a great alternative both for the Earth as well as for our bodies. They have less saturated fat and don't have the antibiotics and hormones that real meat does. Also, you can feed many more people on the grain that is fed to a cow that you can feed with the meat that that cow produces. I rarely eat meant but do try to go organic when I do.