If your’re thinking about juicing, you must begin to think about buying organic. Flooding your cells with amazing and healing phytonutrients is wonderful, but if you’re also flooding them with pesticides, well . . . that’s not so wonderful.
But, buying organic is expensive! There are some ways to lower the cost some. Participating in food co-ops, where produce is bought purchased in bulk and shared among a group of people, or at Costco or Sam’s Club, shopping at local farmer’s markets, and using companies like Azure Standard (sort of a ginormous, traveling food co-op) are some ways.
Let’s face it though, sometimes it’s still not possible to be able to afford to buy everything organic. I’ve done some research and put together 2 lists of foods — first, the “Dirty Dozen”. These are the foods that you must buy organic to prevent introducing tons of pesticides into your body. Second, is a list of 15 foods that have the least amounts of pesticides, so if you can’t afford to buy everything organic (or just don’t have a lot or organic available), these would be the foods that are safest when conventionally grown.
