12 Vegetables with the Most Pesticides (Slideshow)
by Collin Dunn, Corvallis, OR, USA
on 04.28.09

Photo credit: Getty Images / Robin MacDougall
TreeHuggers know that eating organic is better for people and the planet, but do you know which veggies are most important to buy organic? As a follow-up to our previous run-down of the 12 Fruits with the Most Pesticides, we present the 12 veggies most likely to be laden with pesticides.
Thanks to the Environmental Working Group's Shopper's Guide to Pesticides for crunching the numbers on pesticide laden-veggies.
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