We are an apple eating family. One of my favorite snacks is mixing sliced apples in yogurt, adding granola and topping the bowl with honey. We will pick some up as snacks for the kids, bake them in pies – nothing out of the ordinary. They rank right below watermelon and grapefruit on my top ten list. That is until I was reminded about the amount of pesticide that is needed to grow the average apple – see #7 in this article titled “The 7 Foods Experts Won’t Eat” http://bit.ly/7VrP3C

Granted we mostly buy organic apples but before I find myself eating a conventional apple I have taken to scraping them with a knife and marveling at all of the yellowish build up. Simply don’t like pesticide in my pie.