15 fruits and vegetables you should never buy organic

The INSIDER Summary:The Environmental Working Group (EWG) released a list of the top 15 "clean" foods that were found to contain the least pesticides.Sweet corn and avocados are the best types of produce to buy, with pesticides detected in a mere 1%of samples.Other mostly pesticide-free fruit and vegetables include pineapples, papayas, asparagus, onions, and cabbage.Buying organic fruit and vegetablescan be expensive ' especially if you're buying them from places like Whole Foods.But certain types of produce grown in the US are more likely to contain pesticides than others, which means youdon't really need to buy everything organic.Helpfully, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) just released its 2017 Shoppers' Guide to Pesticides in Produce, listingthe fruit and vegetablesfound to containthe least pesticides in its analysis of tests conducted by the US Department of Agriculture.In other words, the cleaner the produce is, the less you need to buy them organic.The cleanest produce you can buy is sweet corn, the report found, followed by avocados. Pesticides were detected in a mereone percent of the sweet corn and avocado samples tested, according to the EWG website. Considering how expensive organic avocados are, this is goodnews for guacamole fans.Other fruit and vegetables on the EWG's "Clean 15" list include pineapples, papayas, asparagus, onions, and cabbage. Over80 percent of samples for thoseproduce turned upno pesticide residues at all, while none of the items in the ranking were found to containmore than four kinds of pesticides in total.While you might not need to buy organic produce to stay away from pesticidesin some food, some people prefer to buy organic for other reasons."I buy organic whenever I can because I support a different system of production that doesn't poison the environment,"Sonya Lunder, a senior analyst at the EWG and lead author of the guide, told INSIDER over the phone.Although, she said,"probably very few people eat 100percent organic, and sometimes are making quick decisions at the produce aisle about what might be more or less worth their money."To help you decide what to put in your basket, hereare the 15 types of fruit and vegetables you don't need toworry aboutbuying organic:1. Sweet corn2. Avocados3. Pineapples4. Cabbage5. Onions6. Sweet peas (frozen)7. Papayas8. Asparagus9. Mangos10. Eggplant11. Honeydew melon12. Kiwi13. Cantaloupe14. Cauliflower15. GrapefruitJoin the conversation about this storyNOW WATCH: How to pick out ripe fruit
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