The NYT Well Blog has a short post on five easy ways to start eating organic food: milk, potatoes, peanut butter, ketchup, and apples. The list is based on a slightly longer list from Dr. Alan Greene. Dr. Greene’s list also includes organic baby food, cotton, beef, soy, corn, and as a bonus, organic wine. The NYT seems focused on those foods to which it would be easy to switch. As Dr. Greene points out, though, switching to organic corn and soy would be virtually impossible without going completely organic.
I was surprised by the amount of pesticide in some of the non-organic foods. For example, a USDA study showed that approximately 80% of the non-organic potato samples tested contained pesticides, even after being peeled and cleaned. That’s not so good.