Top 5 Fruits and Veggies to Buy Organic: 

   (Source, Environmental Working Group)

   --Peaches are the fruit with the most pesticides overall: 96.6 percent of samples tested had detectable pesticides. The average sample had 3.1 different pesticides on it. (Some had as many as 9.) Peaches also had the highest overall total amount of pesticides.

   --Apples are the second most contaminated fruit: 92.1 percent of the samples testing positive for presence of pesticides. The average sample had 2.5 different pesticides. (Some had as many as 9 on a single sample.)

   --Sweet Bell Peppers are the vegetable with the most pesticides: 81.5 percent of samples tested positive for pesticides. The average sample had 2.4 different pesticides on it. (Some had as many as 11 on a single sample.)

   --Celery is second most contaminated vegetable: 94.1percent of all samples tested positive for pesticides. The average sample had 3 different pesticides on it. (Some had as many as 9 on a single sample.)

   --Nectarines are the fruit with the highest percentage of samples (97.3) that tested positive for pesticides. The overall total amount was less than on peaches. The average sample had 3 different pesticides on it (Some had as many as 7).