To buy organic or not? That is the question. Is having to spend $5 for a single organic bell pepper worth it? Or should you save your money and go for the conventionally grown, non-organic one for $1.
Sometimes going organic is worth it and sometimes it's not. According to MSN, one of the big reasons people purchase organic is to limit their exposure to pesticides. As many of us know, pesticides are used to protect a plant on kill the pests that eat it. However, many of those pesticides can pose health risks to humans and have been linked to skin, eye, and lung irritations, and cancer.
Ask these questions when deciding whether or not to buy organic:
First: Does the fruit or vegetable contain a lot of pesticides? You can use the Environmental Working Group's 2012 Shoppers Guide to Pesticides in Produce. It ranks the most highly to least highly contaminated produce.
Second: How often am I eating this produce? If you're eating it only occasionally, buy conventional and save the money. But if you eat the produce all of the time, invest in the organic variety.
There are some foods that that you don't need to worry about. Red cabbage is one of those foods. It, along with 14 other produce items have been deemed the lowest in pesticides according to the EWG's Clean 15 list.
From the thousands of studies that have been done, it's a fact that one of the best things you can do is eat more produce, organic or not.
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