cherries, spinach, nectarines, and kale tested positive for residues of two or more pesticides.


• Multiple samples of kale showed 18 different pesticides.


• Kale and spinach samples had, on average, 1.1 to 1.8 times as much pesti- cide residue by weight than any other crop.


Different fruits and vegetables can


have vastly different levels and numbers of pesticides detected on the crop. All re- search agrees on the health benefits of a diet that includes fruits and vegetables, and eating fresh produce – organic or conven- tional, as budget allows – is essential for health. The Shopper’s Guide is a resource


designed to help you reduce your pesticide exposures as much as possible by indicat- ing which produce to buy organic, and which conventional products are low in pesticide residue. That’s why we also ana- lyzed the USDA data to produce the Clean Fifteen™, our list of the fruits and vegeta- bles that have few, if any, detected pesticide residues.


EWG's Clean Fifteen for 2019


Avocados Sweet corn Pineapples Frozen sweet peas Onions Papayas


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Eggplants Asparagus Kiwis


Cabbages Cauliflower Cantaloupes Broccoli Mushrooms


Honeydew melons Relatively few pesticides were de-


tected on these foods, and tests found low total concentrations of pesticide residues. Key findings:


• Avocados and sweet corn were the cleanest. Less than 1 percent of samples showed any detectable pesticides.


• More than 70 percent of Clean Fifteen fruit and vegetable samples had no pes- ticide residues.


• With the exception of cabbage, all other produce on the Clean Fifteen tested positive for less than four pesticides.


• Multiple pesticide residues are ex- tremely rare on Clean Fifteen vegetables. Only 6 percent of Clean Fifteen fruit and vegetable samples had two or more pes- ticides.


Health Benefits of a Diet Low in Pesticide Residues A French study published in December


in JAMA Internal Medicine, a journal from the American Medical Association, found that among nearly 69,000 participants,


those with the highest frequency of or- ganic food consumption had 25 percent fewer cancers than individuals who did not eat organic food. And in 2018, data from the Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health Environment and Repro- ductive Health, or EARTH, study found a surprising association among study par- ticipants between the consumption of foods high in pesticide residues and fertil- ity problems. These findings raise important ques-


tions about the safety of pesticide mixtures found on produce and suggest that people should focus on eating fruits and vegetables with the fewest pesticide residues. In fact, the most recent of several studies evaluat- ing 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, com- pared to when they were eating a conven- tional diet. The study, published in February in the


journal Environmental Research, found that an organic diet can reduce the levels of chlorpyrifos, a neurotoxic pesticide that can harm the brain of the developing fetus; malathion, a pesticide classified as a prob- able human carcinogen; and clothianidin, a neonicotinoid pesticide that can harm bees.


Genetically Engineered Crops, or GMOs Most processed foods typically contain


one or more ingredients derived from ge- netically engineered crops, such as corn syrup and corn oil made from predomi-


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