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What is Organic Anyway?

Organic fruits and vegetables are grown without synthetic pesticides or GMOs; however, the use of certain organic pesticides is permitted.

Organic livestock are raised without antibiotics or growth hormones and given access open spaces where they can graze and feed naturally during most of the year; however, organic livestock may also be confined during parts of the year and, importantly, can be grainfed.

Finally, it’s important to note that organic packaged foods are permitted to contain 5% nonorganic ingredients and food suspiciously labeled as “made with organic ingredients” can contain even more nonorganic ingredients. In brief, organic may be healthier, but it’s still a good idea to wash your organic produce, buy pastured eggs and grassfed meat, and understand that organic processed food can contain nonorganic ingredients.

The Environmental Working Group’s resources are the goto for this topic. They are a reliable source of information. Website here: https://www.ewg.org/foodnews/summary.php. There is little to be added to their content as, for the most part, this is simply a matter of how our agricultural system raises different foods.

To Buy Organic

Meat! The combination of “grassfed grassfinished” and “raised without any antibiotics ever” labels is just as good, if not better. This ensures a good Omega3/Omega6 ratio and that you won’t screw up your microbiome or contribute to the superbug antibiotic resistance epidemic.
Strawberries are known to be heavily treated with, and soak up, pesticides.
Spinach. Look carefully at a spinach leaf. Notice how it’s spongy? Spinach’s spongy leaves soak up pesticides. “Spinach and kale samples had, on average, 1.1 to 1.8 times as much pesticide residue by weight than any other crop.”
Kale. “More than 92 percent of kale samples had two or more pesticide residues detected, and a single sample could contain up to 18 different residues. The most frequently detected pesticide, found on nearly 60 percent of kale samples, was Dacthal, or DCPA – classified by the Environmental Protection Agency since 1995 as a possible human carcinogen, and prohibited for use in Europe since 2009.”
Peppers.
Tomato.
Celery.

Not to Buy Organic (“More than 70 percent of Clean Fifteen fruit and vegetable samples had no pesticide residues.”)

Avocado! As a rule of thumb, anything with a tough outer skin that you don’t eat you don’t have to buy organic. This includes keto’s golden child, the avocado! “Less than 1 percent of samples showed any detectable pesticides.”

Anything else with a tough outer skin that you don’t eat, including… onions,
Kiwi (superrich in Vitamin C)
Guava (richest source of Vitamin C)
Melons (sugar bomb)
Pineapple (sugar bomb)
Mango (sugar bomb)
Papaya (sugar bomb)
Asparagus. Cleared by the environmental working group for having lowpesticide residue.
Broccoli. “”
Cauliflower. “”
Eggplant. “”
Mushrooms. “”

“In 2012, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued an important report that said children have “unique susceptibilities to [pesticide residues’] potential toxicity.” The organization cited research that linked pesticide exposures in early life to pediatric cancers, decreased cognitive function and behavioral problems.”

Good News… Change is Fast!

Environmental Research, 2019. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

“The most recent of several studies evaluating the impact of an organic diet found that after only six days of eating organic food, adults and children had on average a 60 percent reduction in the levels of synthetic pesticides measured in their urine, compared to when they were eating a conventional diet.”

Nicholas Norwitz Oxford PhD Researcher and Harvard Med Student:
https://www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/team/nichol...