Organic food is expensive! Making the switch from a zero-organic shopping cart to 100% organic can put a serious dent in your bank balance. Also, organic foods are not as widely available as non-organic foods, so you may not have much variety of organic fruit and veg where you shop.

If you want to ‘go organic’ but find the financial commitment too high, or your choices are limited, you can be smarter with your choices by focusing on the ‘clean 15’ and ‘dirty dozen’. These are fruit and veg that have been rated in terms of their pesticide load, with the ‘clean 15’ containing the fewest pesticide residues, and the ‘dirty dozen’ the most.