The celery plant is essentially a water uptake mechanism, absorbing plenty of toxins from the soil and groundwater in the process. Nonorganic celery is a major potential source of exposure to organophosphates, including the probable human carcinogen chlorothalonil. In FDA tests celery is more likely than any other vegetable to contain pesticide residue -- 82 per cent of the samples tested positive.
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Excerpted from To Buy or Not To Buy Organic, copyright 2007 by Cindy Burke. Used by permission of Avalon Publishing Group.All Rights Reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced except with permission in writing from the publisher.
