date:Jul 16, 2014
fruit, vegetables and cereals provide consumers 20- to 40-percent more antioxidants, which would be equivalent to eating between one to two extra servings of fruit and vegetables a day.
The team also found that pesticide residues were four times more likely to be found in conventional crops than organic ones and that levels of the toxic heavy metal cadmium are nearly twice as high for conventionally grown foods.
However, the U.S. Department of Agricultures Pesticide Data Program (PDP) tests co