Posted on 10/24/2007 2:21:14 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Five Easy Ways to Go Organic
Switching to organic is tough for many families who don’t want to pay higher prices or give up their favorite foods. But by choosing organic versions of just a few foods that you eat often, you can increase the percentage of organic food in your diet without big changes to your shopping cart or your spending.
The key is to be strategic in your organic purchases. Opting for organic produce, for instance, doesn’t necessarily have a big impact, depending on what you eat. According to the Environmental Working Group, commercially-farmed fruits and vegetables vary in their levels of pesticide residue. Some vegetables, like broccoli, asparagus and onions, as well as foods with peels, such as avocados, bananas and oranges, have relatively low levels compared to other fruits and vegetables.
So how do you make your organic choices count? Pediatrician Dr. Alan Greene, whose new book “Raising Baby Green” explains how to raise a child in an environmentally-friendly way, has identified a few “strategic” organic foods that he says can make the biggest impact on the family diet.
1. Milk: “When you choose a glass of conventional milk, you are buying into a whole chemical system of agriculture,'’ says Dr. Greene. People who switch to organic milk typically do so because they are concerned about the antibiotics, artificial hormones and pesticides used in the commercial dairy industry. One recent United States Department of Agriculture survey found certain pesticides in about 30 percent of conventional milk samples and low levels in only one organic sample. The level is relatively low compared to some other foods, but many kids consume milk in large quantities.
(Excerpt) Read more at well.blogs.nytimes.com ...
4. Ketchup: For some families, ketchup accounts for a large part of the household vegetable intake. About 75 percent of tomato consumption is in the form of processed tomatoes, including juice, tomato paste and ketchup. Notably, recent research has shown organic ketchup has about double the antioxidants of conventional ketchup.
Well if the NYT is now publishing that ketchup is a vegetable, it seems as though Reagan was right (again.)
Why?
Love Ketchup - but NEVER BUY HEINZ!!!!!
Love Ketchup - but NEVER BUY HEINZ!!!!!
I have always preferred Hunt Ketchup. IMO it tastes much better than any other kind.
You can say that again.
I'm a little leery of organic vegetables....what's used for fertilizer? Is there even a bit of difference?
I buy a lot locally at farmer's markets, and have a small garden for herbs, cukes, and tomatoes - I don't use pesticides in it (gee, how Gaia-conscious is that?!) so I suppose that my family is "fairly organic"....but it's not like I use it to make a statement, or anything. AlGore would be disappointed.
And actually, all of the parsely in my herb garden this year got mowed over by fat green caterpillars...they turn into those beautiful blue swallowtails, and wbill jr loves to watch the "tat-rpillars" munching. I can get parsely in the store this fall...it was worth it to watch my son learning.
>You can say that again.<
Oh dear, I’m afraid I did! ;)
Examples of products containing lycopene include: High concentrations: Tomatoes and tomato products (sauce, soup, paste, juice and ketchup)
Thank You!
The same $#!t that's been used for millions of years, long before we started refining the basic chemicals, and adding in others, it contains.
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