Know Your Produce

According to the (EPA), 60 percent of herbicides, 90 % of fungicides and 30 % of insecticides are known to cause cancer.


I would like to provide you with some educational pieces that I have found helpful in determining my selection of produce from my local market and/or grocery store. The Environmental Working Group has provided a handy tool called, the “Shoppers’ Guide to Pesticides in Produce” that you may find helpful too (www.foodnews.org ). I have attached this in an adobe file and there is a cutout purse size guide that you can take with you as you shop. I have also attached an archived issue of a newsletter I did on the “Danger of Pesticides” which may help educate you as to why I look for organic if possible, if not available, then stick to this guide and always wash my produce. The final piece is what I use and recommend for a very effective, affordable and easy to use fruit/vegetable spray that you can make at home for fractions of the cost of some of those on the market!

And finally, a little bit of education as to how to read those PLU codes on your produce at your local grocery so you know if what you are buying is organic or not……..always check this code as many times, the heading over the bin may say “organic” but somehow, inorganic produce is incorrectly placed in those bins……….consumer be AWARE!

— 4 digits: conventional produce

— 5 digits beginning with 9: organic

— 5 digits beginning with 8: GMO



Example:

— #4131 = Fuji apple

— #94131= Organic Fuji apple

— #84131 = GMO Fuji apple



Thank you for your ongoing interest in improving YOUR health naturally by making educated choices and decisions about what foods you will allow in your body and in the bodies of those you love and care about. And, thank you for your continued commitment to adding Juice Plus+ ® to your prevention program for health and vitality!

Sherry Fritz
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