Worst of the Dirty Dozen™
#1 Apples
Eaten daily by many children, 98 percent of conventional apples had pesticides.
#2 Celery
Highly contaminated, celery tested positive for 57 different pesticides.
#3 Bell Peppers
Bell peppers tested positive for up to 15 pesticides on a single sample.
Best of the Clean 15™
#1 Onions
Conventional onions are a clean crop. Less than 1 percent of samples had any pesticides.
#2 Sweet Corn
98 percent of all frozen and sweet corn samples had no detectable pesticide residues.
#3 Pineapples
Only 6 different pesticides were found on pineapples.