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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

From IdealBite.com ~ This tip on buying fresh produce.

“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 non-genetically modified. Kind of a big deal.”

“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.”

How fabulous to head to my store with this knowledge!

You can go to the website and sign up for a daily hint on making your life greener!

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EDIT; I just got home from the grocery store and it checked out !!

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Member Comments About This Blog Post:

PADRAIGHA 9/30/2009 10:18PM

I will check this out!

FABAT402009 9/21/2009 10:33PM

Will use this process when I head to the store next. I just went shopping last night but had missed this blog.

Thanks a bunch for the information..

AMALIA8 9/1/2009 7:29AM

That's neat. I'll never remember it but it's neat LOL. Thanks for sharing!

NANNIOF8 8/31/2009 1:36PM

Thank you so much for sharing this info with us :)
I'm going to check out the codes next time I'm shopping and I'm going to check the codes for the produce I have now.
I'm from Canada as well, and I'm sure it must be the same here as in the US as a lot of our produce come from the States.
NO # 8 produce for me !!!!!!!!

FLUTTERBUGCE 8/27/2009 8:49AM

Wow! I didn't know that! Thank you very much for sharing that information!

JESSYLANNE 8/27/2009 12:39AM

Thank you! I didn't know anything about the 8...Like Laserthecat said, maybe it's different here in Canada. In front of me there is an organic apple which number starts with a 9, and an organic mango... same thing. So it should be the same in canada than US. it makes sense because most of fruits we buy here are made in US.
thank you so much! I'm gonna check the number 8 now!! now way I'll eat transgenic produces without knowing it!

VIVRE5 8/26/2009 11:18PM

ty so much for the info!!!!!

LIV2RIDE 8/26/2009 9:38PM

This is great information! I found this article a couple months ago. I used to think the numbers for just for the cashiers.

SOMASLIM 8/26/2009 9:11PM

Good to know. Thanks.

WILD4STARS 8/26/2009 3:07PM

I just got home from the grocery store and checked out the numbers and it's true. Everything that was in the organic section was 5 digits starting with 9, the rest were 4 digits. I didn't see any 5 digits starting with an 8.