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Just a reminder about how to spot a GM food...

 

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Wed, Aug 26, 2009 3:30 am

Ideal Bite: A Grocery Star Is Born

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

August 26, 2009

 

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PRODUCE LABELS

 

 

 

A Grocery Star Is Born

 

 

GM-free and organic produce isn't available everywhere, but this trick helps you know what's what when navigating the fruit and veggie aisles.

 

 

 

 

Are your fruits and veggies blessed with good genes? Peel your eyes off the silver screen and check the number on the little label on your apple or squash. It'll help you make sure what you're buying is organic and nongenetically modified. Kind of a big deal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

World-famous health benefits. Genetically modified (GM) foods have been in stores only since the 1990s, so we don't know the long-term health risks, and in a recent study by the Austrian government, GM corn was found to affect fertility in mice.

A more diverse planet for celeb tots…and the rest of us. Mainstream scientists are concerned that GM organisms will reduce biodiversity.

No prominent pesticides. Although farmers can use some naturally occurring pesticides on organic foods, they're way less harmful than the synthetic kind.

A-List tastes. Foodies everywhere agree that the range of possible flavors is greater when we just let Mother Nature do her thing.

 

Once we heard about this trick, it made those little stickers a little less annoying to peel off.

 

 

Look for the PLU codes on the labels stuck on your fruits and veggies.

 

A four-digit number means it's conventionally grown.

A five-digit number beginning with 9 means it's organic.

A five-digit number beginning with 8 means it's genetically modified.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

According to Forbes, the most expensive celeb baby photos in the world were of Jennifer Lopez's twins, Emme and Max (People paid $6 million for the pics).

 

 

 

 

 

 

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