Hello there, Monica Reinagle here from the Nutrition Diva podcast with a quick little bonus episode for you.

Earlier this week I discussed the costs and the benefits of eating seasonally and or

locally on the nutrition Diva Podcast.

I hope you heard that episode.

But later that same day, I got an email from Larry

thanking me for answering his question

because he was the one that submitted it for that

podcast, and he had a follow-up question for me.

He said,

some of the produce on the recently published

EWG Dirty Dozens list aren't available from my local organic growers.

So for these items, would I be better off choosing non-local organic or local non-organic.

Maybe you have found yourself with the same dilemma.

Now the dirty dozen list of course

is a list of the 12 fruits and vegetables

found to have the highest pesticide

residues. And you know the items on this list barely change from year to year but

somehow the environmental working group the EWG still manages to make a huge deal out of each year's release of the list.

And the conventional advice runs like this.

If you can't buy all organic produce, then at least make sure that you're buying

organic for these 12 items in order to reduce your exposure to harmful pesticides.

Now, time for true confession.

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