Decoding Your Food


This made the rounds a year ago or so, but it’s always a good reminder: The stickers on American produce can tell you if the food is organic or genetically modified. Quoting megnut, who is quoting Food & Wine: “The numbers tell you how the fruit was grown. Conventionally grown fruit has four digits; organically grown fruit has five and starts with a nine; genetically engineered has five numbers and starts with an eight.”

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