Healthy Food Choices: Organic Fruit

Organic fruits are an excellent way to limit your exposure to harmful pesticides. Learn some tips for picking organic fruits in this video.

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Organic fruits have decreased exposure to pesticides
Consider not eating skin
Pregnant women should watch their pesticide exposure

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Alice Merritt is currently the Campus Dietitian at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. She has a masters degree from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in public health with a concentration on nutrition. Alice has worked as a registered dietician for four years, and believes that helping people reach their nutritional goals will lead to a long and healthy life.

ALCIE MERRITT: Now I am going to talk to you about organic fruits. A lot of people are starting to investigate buying more organic products. And for organic fruits, it necessarily means that you are going to be getting a lower exposure to harmful pesticides. When you are thinking about buying organic fruits, it is not necessary to buy all organic fruits. But you might want to think about buying some organic fruits that you are going to eat the skin off. Things that you peel off the skin such as bananas, grapefruits, oranges, they are going to have lower pesticides in their skins. Things like apple, strawberries, blueberries where you are actually eating the whole fruit, it might be a good idea to buy organic fruits. Another thing to consider when buying organic fruits is if you are a child or if you are pregnant, because these stages or our life are much more vulnerable to building up pesticide residues. Organic fruits can be a lot more expensive, so remember that ones you are going to eat the skin off, would be a good thing to buy organic. If you are going to be peeling the skin away, such as a banana, an orange, a pineapple, it is not necessarily important for you to buy those organic foods. These are all reasons why it is healthy to buy organic fruits.

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