{"id":1047,"date":"2016-06-20T09:33:35","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T01:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturext.com\/sg\/?p=1047"},"modified":"2016-06-20T12:56:18","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T04:56:18","slug":"is-natural-worth-the-extra-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naturext.com\/sg\/en\/is-natural-worth-the-extra-cost\/","title":{"rendered":"Is &#8216;Natural&#8217; Worth the Extra Cost?"},"content":{"rendered":"To maximize your organic food dollar, the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., recommends going organic on the &#8220;dirty dozen&#8221; &#8212; types of produce that are most susceptible to pesticide residue:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Peaches<\/li>\n<li>Apples<\/li>\n<li>Sweet bell peppers<\/li>\n<li>Celery<\/li>\n<li>Nectarines<\/li>\n<li>Strawberries<\/li>\n<li>Cherries<\/li>\n<li>Pears<\/li>\n<li>Grapes (imported)<\/li>\n<li>Spinach<\/li>\n<li>Lettuce<\/li>\n<li>Potatoes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And which organic produce is probably not worth the added expense? The group lists these 12 items as having the least pesticide residues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Papayas<\/li>\n<li>Broccoli<\/li>\n<li>Cabbage<\/li>\n<li>Bananas<\/li>\n<li>Kiwifruit<\/li>\n<li>Sweet peas (frozen)<\/li>\n<li>Asparagus<\/li>\n<li>Mangoes<\/li>\n<li>Pineapple<\/li>\n<li>Sweet corn (frozen)<\/li>\n<li>Avocadoes<\/li>\n<li>Onions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To maximize your organic food dollar, the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., recommends going organic on the &#8220;dirty dozen&#8221; &#8212; types of produce that are &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturext.com\/sg\/en\/is-natural-worth-the-extra-cost\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":1056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[53,54],"class_list":["post-1047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-organic","tag-pesticide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturext.com\/sg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturext.com\/sg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturext.com\/sg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturext.com\/sg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturext.com\/sg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturext.com\/sg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1049,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturext.com\/sg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions\/1049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturext.com\/sg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturext.com\/sg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturext.com\/sg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturext.com\/sg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}