Wouldn’t it be great to grow and harvest our own fresh fruit and vegetables? With no pesticides to worry about. No intensive farming and no need to wrangle about whether to pay more for organic produce. If you are shopping on a budget choosing all organic can be costly. Thankfully the Environmental Working Group has done the hard work for you. The working group analysed 48 of the most popular fruit and vegetables and found that some produce has higher chemical residue.  The outcome is a dirty dozen (with two more added in 2015) and the clean 15.

The Dirty Dozen + 2 Foods to choose organic if you can

Apples

Peaches

Nectarines

Strawberries

Grapes

Celery

Spinach

Sweet Peppers

Cucumbers

Cherry tomatoes

Sugar snap peas

Potatoes

Hot chilli peppers

Kale/greens

The Clean Fifteen (you can choose non organic)

Avocados

Sweetcorn

Pineapple

Cabbage

Frozen peas

Onions

Asparagus

Mangos

Papaya

Kiwi

Aubergine

Grapefruit

Cantaloupe melon

Cauliflower

Sweet potato