Avocado, pineapple, papaya: fruit (and vegetables) with LESS pesticides

The ranking of fruit and vegetables least contaminated by pesticides is back on time for 2021, according to EWG analyzes.

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The ranking of fruit and vegetables most contaminated by pesticides is back on time also for 2021, but also that of "good" foods in which there are fewer chemicals. This is supplied by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) which every year analyzes a series of products on the American market.

Read: Pesticides: Guess which fruits and vegetables are the most contaminated? The "dirty dozen" ranking

Also for 2021, therefore, for the seventeenth consecutive year, the EWG has classified the levels of pesticide residues of fruits and vegetables based on samples taken by the United States Department of Agriculture and the United States Food and Drug Administration. United.

Next to the Dirty Dozen, there is, as always, the Clean Fifteen, the list of fruits and vegetables least contaminated by pesticides and fungicides.

Clean Fifteen 2021

Even the ranking of "cleaner" fruit and vegetables does not differ much from last year (they are the same foods, but in a different order). We find:

Avocado
Sweet corn
Ananas
Onion
Papaya
Sweet peas (frozen)
Melanzane
Asparagus
Broccoli
Cabbages
Kiwi
Cauliflower
Mushrooms
Green melon
Melons

These 15 articles had the lowest amounts of pesticide residues, according to EWG's analysis of the most recent USDA data. The key findings:

Avocado and sweet corn were the cleanest. Less than 2% of the samples showed detectable pesticides
The first seven Clean Fifteen crops tested positive for three or fewer pesticides on a single sample
Almost 70% of Clean Fifteen fruit and vegetable samples had no pesticide residues
Multiple pesticide residues are extremely rare on Clean Fifteen vegetables. Only 8% of Clean Fifteen fruit and vegetable samples had two or more pesticides

Source: EWG