here's a question i'm often asked how important is it to eat organic fruits and vegetables
well for for one thing obviously we don't want pesticides and fungicides and herbicides
on our food so yes it is important there's no question about it so we do want our food free
of that and organic produce organic fruits and vegetables is free of that um the one thing though
you do have to do with organic fruits and vegetables. If it's tomatoes, cucumbers,
apples, and it's from larger organic farms, they do spray a waxy substance on there that you might
want to wash off because there is MSG in that wax. It's a little secret. So be mindful about that.
But yes, at least there's no pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides. And then, you know,
you can wash that off. So that's, it's fine. As far as with organic produce, you can wash
that wax off and get that little MSG film that they do apply in some of the big farms. I don't
know why they do that, but they do it. So the bottom line is, what if you can't afford the
organic fruits and vegetables to just eat that way? It's really pricey for a lot of people. It's not
in their budget. It's financially really hard. So I do recommend then conventional produce. I do.
Now, what you have to look for with conventional produce, the safer options are avocados, grapefruit, oranges, tangerines, melons, papayas, mangoes, bananas.
These are all safer options in the conventional produce world.
Celery is a little iffy, but safer than greens.
What I don't recommend with conventional produce is doing salads that are conventional.
I don't recommend lettuces and spinach or any other green to be conventional.
That's when the sprays, the fungicides, herbicides, rodenticides, they actually use rodenticides.
People often say to me, what's a rodenticide?
It's to kill rodents.
And it's a whole nother, it's basically rat poison in your produce.
But they spray it instead.
They spray the rat poison instead of putting it in pellets.
So the bottom line is we do want to stay away from conventional produce.
But like I said, if you have to do tree fruits like peaches, pears, plums, apples in conventional sprayed produce, peel them.
There's nothing wrong with peeling them.
Now, of course, there's going to be some residue inside the fruit itself.
I'm not ignorant to that.
And I'm sure some organic fruit and vegetable experts are going to be listening to this question.
So I do realize that, yes, the plants and the trees draw up pesticides that wash from the rain that they spray on the produce, on the conventional produce.
and it gets absorbed and drawn up through the roots of the trees
or through the roots of the plants for vegetables,
then I understand that.
But if you have a budget issue, financial issue,
or accessibility issue,
there's different places all around the world
you can't get the best produce, including the U.S.
And so if there's different places in the U.S. or whatever
and you can't get what you need,
then we go for conventional.
So conventional avocados happen to be really great.
They're less expensive.
That's a great one.
Grapefruits, less expensive.
That's a great one.
Oranges, less expensive.
That's a great one.
Like I said, melons and papayas and mangoes too.
Celery.
Now, GMO is another story.
So we have to be careful about GMO.
So if you get conventional peas, most likely they're GMO.
if you get conventional corn most likely it's gmo but yet corn in general be cautious about
because even organic corn is probably a gmo derivative um you can do your research on gmo
and you can understand you know and you can learn about that but um but the whole point is there are
fruits and vegetables you can do that are conventional if you can't get the you know
accessibility to them. So you could do bananas too. That's another option. And, um, uh, cherries,
you can do cherries. You can wash cherries too. You can wash them very easily. Blueberries,
you could do those conventionally too, because they don't absorb the same way. They don't absorb
the pesticides, herbicides, fungicides the same way that, um, other berries do like strawberries.
uh what to stay away from conventionally so this is a good point let's talk about that for a second
uh when it comes down to conventional sprayed produce what you want to stay away from strawberries
you want to stay away from raspberries um you want to stay away from blackberries but you don't
have to stay away from blueberries um you want to stay away from grapes um that's another one
that you want organic because they happen to use a little bit more spray uh the big farms anyway
smaller conventional farms use less spray in general so um you might be able to find some
grapes from a smaller farm there's smaller family farms that do ip integrative pest management so
i you know so ipm i think they use that and basically that means is the schedule is is
really downsized for spraying, sometimes not even ever sprayed, depending. So that's an option too.
But you want to stay away from lettuces. Like I said, you want to stay away from spinach. You want
to stay away from all the greens when it comes down. You just can't get that pesticide off those
greens really easily. So that's another thing. So I'm really excited though about this question
because I'm hoping it gives everybody an opportunity
to still be able to eat and get what they need.
Oh, another one, get organic potatoes.
Don't do conventional potatoes.
I don't like conventional potatoes.
I do like those organic if you can.
You know, sweet potatoes don't really have to be organic.
Those can be conventional if we had to.
So these are just, you know, options.
These are different options.
But regular white potato, red potato, Yukon gold, russet, those you want to be organic if you can.
Worst case scenario, if you get a conventional one, fine.
It's just that they're starting to now GMO some of the conventional potatoes.
But they're starting that with broccoli.
They're starting that with cauliflower.
They're working on GMOing a lot of vegetables, conventional vegetables.
So anyway, these are some of the different options.
so you can survive and thrive, live healthy with, you know, your fruits and vegetables
and the whole bit.
So I hope this helps.
And that's a great question.
