Using a juicer? If so, there are many reasons to use organic fruits and vegetables. What are organic foods? The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s organic label means that fruits and vegetables were raised without using chemical pesticides, fertilizers or genetically modified seeds. Organic is healthier for you, eliminating potential consumption of chemicals, and better for the environment by reducing the amount of pesticides and fertilizers that leach into soil or water.

Why is juicing organic fruits and vegetables important? Organic foods are free of pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and other chemicals that are used to control pests and maintain commercial crop quantities. Do you want some chemicals to go with your otherwise healthy juice? If not, then juice organic fruits and vegetables, which are free of chemicals, in your juicer. Unfortunately scrubbing, washing and peeling foods does not always remove the chemicals from them. Certain foods, like celery, do not have an outer peel and thus are more susceptible to pesticides. Further, many pesticides are absorbed into a plants’ flesh and interior meat making them impossible to totally clean.

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Published 5/2/2010 12:00:00 AM

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