Jess Dang Jess Dang is the Founder of Cook Smarts where she also wears the hat of Chief Kitchen Coach. She left the corporate world in 2011 to start Cook Smarts because she was passionate about bringing food education back to our schools and family dinners back into our lives. Follow me here
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Your picture above shows a basket of tomatoes, but not whether they belong in the "dirty dozen" or the "clean fifteen" group.
Well the "dirty dozen" already has 12 items in it and the "clean 15" has 15 items in it, so I would say it doesn't belong in either group, but in between where it is up to the shoppers discretion. Anything not found on those 2 lists you would just have to use your discretion, but did you notice that most things on the "clean 15" are items that you would peel/not eat the outer skin, while the most of the "dirty dozen" are items that you would just rinse off and eat without peeling? That's the major difference in whether to buy organic or not.
The picture above appears to have basil, dill? and peppers that are not sweet bell peppers, so I think it's just supposed to be a nice background for the "chart" that was made, and nothing more.
If you consider gmo's corn and many other gmo's produce something you don't have to worry about, then don't buy organic; I personally prefer mother nature's principles than Monsanto's.
Although I'm a little late in responding, here is what I think about when buying food. Farmers markets, Our bodies were not made to process man-made items in our food, aka, GMO, chemicals, preservatives, HFCS, hydrogenated oils, growth hormones, antibiotics ( this is why it's no longer working when we really need them). I keep hearing about how there's no time to cook anymore. BULLS--T. Cook in bulk, canning, hell even the crock pot can save time.