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Numbers Always Tell

June 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Food Info

On visiting the folks over at Happy Foodie they had an informative post about those bothersome little stickers plastered on every piece of fruit or vegetable you buy - and here it is.

Besides being useful for craft projects, those little stickers that come on your fruit actually tell you something. Did you know that you can tell if a piece of fruit is organically grown by the numbers on the sticker? If it starts with a “9?…it’s organic. If it starts with a “4?, it’s not. If it starts with an “8?, it’s genetically modified. Now you know.

The link to craft projects shows a clever box covered with stickers. I myself have collected the stickers on a sheet of paper. I was going to frame it, but after seeing this box, I think I’ll can my project. Besides, her stickers are a lot more interesting than mine, and I think that variety adds interest…in all things.

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  • 1 Green Smoothie Breakfast // Aug 16, 2008 at 7:34 pm

    […] powder - I use Pure Synergy, and finally 1/3 a lemon. I peeled the lemon because I had taken the sticker off so I didn’t know if it was organic, but I left most of the pith on. If it had been organic I would have used 1/4  of the lemon, skin […]

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