Clean Cuisine

     

The Pesticide Action Network has just launched a new website called What's On My Food  to show you how dirty the food you're eating might actually be and lists all of the pesticides that can be found on everything we eat from almonds and apple juice to watermelon and winter squash.

The site has some interesting and very disturbing facts on pesticides, like the fact that 888 million lbs. of pesticides are applied in the United States each year.  That's an average of nearly 3 lbs. per person!  It also lists the different pesticides found in a wide variety of foods and compares the organic and conventional grown versions of each.  It's interesting to learn that even organic foods show traces of pesticides that can travel many miles by wind, water and dust.

 

The information on the site might not be totally accurate and the opinions expressed might be a bit biased but it's still worth checking out and is definitely a good reminder that we should ALWAYS wash our food before we eat it!