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Healthy Living Foods: The Organic Round Up

Healthy Living Foods: The Organic Round Up

Healthy Living Foods: The Organic Round Up

Organic food is popular these days, mainly because people don't want to eat toxic pesticides, herbacides, fungacides and insecticides that are sprayed on food crops. As people's consciousness have begun to rise around food and food choices there has been a huge rise in the consumption of organically grown food.

When I start talking about the importance of organic food with folks they often mention that organic food is too expensive and wonder if it is worth the price. In America we've grown acoustom to the idea that food should be cheap and so easily American sacrifice quality and value for the sticker price. And, on top of this we are lured by coupons that tell us we will save money by spending money. Folks saving $1.00 on a $3.00 bottle of soda means you just wasted $2.00!!!! You do not save money when you buy unnecessary food like products filled with sugar and chemicals.

With that I want to give you a list of 5 Foods that you should buy that are organically grown.

1.) Apples
2.) Strawberries
3.) Spinach
4.) Lettuce
5.) Kale

Other foods in this category are grapes, peaches, nectarines, blueberries and celery. The foods listed in this category are most likely to contain chemical reside from conventional farming. These are all really potent foods that excel in nutrition and by purchasing them from farmers that don't use chemicals ensures you are receiving the best.

Conversely there are foods that are generally safe to eat when not grown organically, the list includes avocados, onions, eggplant, asparagus, mangoes and kiwis. On average these foods rank low on the pesticide residue level.

 

Ever wonder why organic food is more expensive?

Part of the reason lies simply in the certification process, the agencies that do this work charge fees, plain and simple. The do have to investigate and make sure the farmer or food handler is actually doing the job they say they are doing. It is this kind of administrative and beuracratic work that leads to increased costs. They provide oversight based on a set of guidelines and this helps to ensure that what is advertised is what is delivered. This is time consuming and requires a lot of man power, this leads increased costs for the consumer.
 
But, if you want to avoid all this you have two options: 1.) Grow Your Own or 2.) Shop at a local farm get to know the farmer and ask questions. Find out what chemicals they use and on what crops, often a farmer will grow food organically but not have the resources to through the organic certification process. So check with farmers at your farmers markets and plant a little kitchen garden because nothing beats food straight from the garden!


This piece was written and compiled for Zebra Organics by Mark D'Aquila, flower essence practitioner, www.essencealchemy.com
5 years ago