Showing posts with label conventional. Show all posts
Showing posts with label conventional. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

A Little-Known Method



Recently I found out there is a way to know whether the food you buy is organic, conventional or genetically modified. As in the photo of my bananas above, you look at the 4 or 5 digit PLU code on the product. If the first digit is a '4' it is conventional, '9' means organic, '8' means it was genetically modified. Here is an article explaining it.  My bananas have code '4011' (the code is in yellow under the Chiquita name in the photo) which means it was conventionally grown.