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Daimyo said:Invest in a refractometer. It's device that shows how much sugars (and other stuff) is in certain fruit or vegetable. Higher Brix food taste better and there is some correlation with nutrient density. Usually the higher Brix fruit or plant is the less it is attaced by pest and diseases, so less pesticide will be used. If you are ordering online you might ask the grower what's the Brix of his produce. Orange growers usually use refractometers so he/she should know...
tara said:post 87947
I'd go with higher brix/better taste - maybe with a refractometer if you have one or can get the info from grower, but taste testing is probably just as good if you are buying it directly.
Thanks, yes, interesting.Daimyo said:I know you are interested in that tara:
https://youtu.be/o55RGuELglI?t=23m
John Kempf is very much influenced by RBTI
I also follow this, just in case anyone has not seen it:
EWG's 2017 Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce
It provides a list from worst to least worst fruits/veges with their pesticides levels. Unfortunately, avocados has been proven to contain the least amount of pesticides (non-organic). And apples have the most. So I generally buy NON-Organic for the last 15 items and organic for the first 20 (not that I buy ALL of them, but the ones I do buy)
So from this list you can see that mangos & papayas for example, are low in pesticides to a point where you can just buy them non-organic. However something like grapes, are high enough in pesticides to warrant buying organic instead.