Paul Saladino· MD
Organic fruit (and vegetables?) is great but conventional plant foods can be washed and skin removed to lower pesticide residue.
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Organic fruit (and vegetables?) is great but conventional plant foods can be washed and skin removed to lower pesticide residue.
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So even if you wash it off and you say, "Oh, you don't eat the skin of a squash," I don't know how much of that pesticide use, whether it's glyphosate, 2,4-D, or other pesticides, is going to go into the squash through the skin.