According to EWG’s Dirty Dozen™ list, strawberries top the list of fruits and vegetables containing the most pesticides.
Better than butter, really? Like other greasy foods, margarine is rich in phenol, (1,1-dimethylethyl)-4-methoxy- (BHA), an authorized food additive in Canada.
Legumes are an excellent source of vegetable proteins and minerals, but it’s vital to soak them and make sure you cook them long enough!
The cause is unknown but is thought to be a specific non-edible variety of pine nut from China that gets mixed in with the edible kind.
You’ve probably heard a lot about nitrites in deli meats recently, as they’ve been linked to cancer. Although nitrites are naturally occurring (such as in celery extract) and the body eliminates most of them.
That beet spaghetti you made with your spiralizer might be pretty, but it could also be dangerous. Between 2014 and 2018, Quebec’s department of agriculture, fisheries.
Not everyone can afford to go organic, but when it comes to potatoes, it’s probably your best bet.
Contrary to what you may have heard, celery is not made up of mostly water. More than 95 per cent of celery tested by the Environmental Working Group contained high levels of dangerous pesticides.
Separately, both of these vegetables are extremely healthy, but if you store them near a banana, it’s a disaster for your taste buds.
They contain anthraquinones, which can cause severe reactions such as vomiting, cramps, convulsions, and in rare cases, coma and death. However, rhubarb leaves can be a great natural insecticide!