{"id":51,"date":"2012-06-21T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/?p=51"},"modified":"2012-06-21T15:27:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T15:27:00","slug":"the-dirty-dozen-and-clean-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"The Dirty Dozen and Clean 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-OEmDu3CiA4U\/T-K0Zaj7LvI\/AAAAAAAAQa0\/ekQH87BKFe4\/s1600\/fruit.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-OEmDu3CiA4U\/T-K0Zaj7LvI\/AAAAAAAAQa0\/ekQH87BKFe4\/s320\/fruit.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I saw organic bananas in the produce section and wondered, &#8220;Why would I buy organic bananas if I&#8217;m just going to peel them anyways?\u00a0 Wouldn&#8217;t all the bad chemicals be on the peel? Which fruits and vegetables should I be buying organic?&#8221;. Then, the other morning as I was hitting the snooze button on the alarm for the umpteenth time, a news story came on KOMO news-radio about the &#8220;Dirty Dozen and Clean 15&#8221;.\u00a0 The Dirty Dozen are the top twelve fruits and vegetables that had the highest pesticide residue, meaning you should buy these organic or grow them yourself.\u00a0 The Clean 15 are fruits and vegetables that had little to no traces of pesticides and don&#8217;t need to be bought organic.<\/p>\n<p>The Dirty Dozen &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Apples<\/li>\n<li>Celery<\/li>\n<li>Sweet bell peppers<\/li>\n<li>Peaches<\/li>\n<li>Strawberries<\/li>\n<li>Spinach<\/li>\n<li>Nectarines (imported)<\/li>\n<li>Grapes<\/li>\n<li>Lettuce<\/li>\n<li>Cucumbers<\/li>\n<li>Blueberries (domestic)<\/li>\n<li>Potatoes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Clean 15 &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Onions<\/li>\n<li>Sweet corn<\/li>\n<li>Pineapples<\/li>\n<li>Avocado<\/li>\n<li>Cabbage<\/li>\n<li>Sweet peas<\/li>\n<li>Asparagus<\/li>\n<li>Mangoes<\/li>\n<li>Eggplant<\/li>\n<li>Kiwi<\/li>\n<li>Cantaloupe (domestic)<\/li>\n<li>Sweet potatoes<\/li>\n<li>Grapefruit<\/li>\n<li>Watermelon<\/li>\n<li>Mushrooms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read the full article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drweil.com\/drw\/u\/ART02985\/Foods-You-Should-Always-Buy-Organic.html\">go here. <\/a><a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?eo=astelin+price+at+lloyds\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw organic bananas in the produce section and wondered, &#8220;Why would I buy organic bananas if I&#8217;m just going to peel them anyways?\u00a0 Wouldn&#8217;t all the bad chemicals be on the peel? Which fruits and vegetables should I be buying organic?&#8221;. Then, the other morning as I was hitting the snooze button on the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}