Worried about pesticide residues on your produce? A simple spoonful of baking soda in water, soaked for 10-15 minutes, proves remarkably effective at removing harmful chemicals from fruits and ...

Eating a lot of fruits or vegetables with higher levels of pesticides may raise the levels of dozens of pesticides in your urine, according to a new study. "We compared the amount of pesticides on ...

Australia’s love affair with berries has prompted new advice about a common pesticide. But the risk of harm is low.

To help consumers identify the fruits and vegetables that posed the greatest risk from pesticides, Consumer Reports recently analyzed eight years of data from the Department of Agriculture’s pesticide ...

What to know about these problem produce items, plus smart substitutions you can make By Catherine Roberts To help consumers identify the fruits and vegetables that posed the greatest risk from ...

Moreover, the nutritional superiority of organic food is still up for debate. Some studies show marginally higher levels of ...

Child laborers and other farmworkers in California are being exposed to toxic pesticides, in part because of splintered ...

People who eat more fruits and vegetables may experience better sleep quality, according to a new study — and the benefits could occur overnight. Researchers from Columbia University and the ...

The scale of prediabetes (a health condition where the blood sugar levels are more than usual but not high enough to be diagnosed as type 2 diabetes) in India stands at nearly 25 million cases.

Every year at the Alaska State Fair, local farmers try to outdo each other with car-sized pumpkins and 130-pound cabbages. Here’s what it takes to grow such prodigious produce. This giant pumpkin ...

Farmers in a newly published Europe-wide study were exposed to about twice as many pesticides as the general population — but ...