Are there more pesticides in good-looking vegetables?

When everyone is shopping for vegetables, they habitually pick up good-looking vegetables and suddenly remember the TV report: there are more good-looking vegetables hit with pesticides!

So which vegetables have the highest pesticide residues?

There are many kinds of pesticides, as long as they are used to control pests in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishing production, and chemicals and biological products that regulate the growth of animals and plants can be counted as pesticides.

As far as vegetables are concerned, according to the classification of control objects, they can be divided into pesticides, acaricides, fungicides, herbicides and rodenticide. Among them, insecticides are the most widely used, the largest dosage and strong toxicity.

If we use the non-destructive testing method based on near infrared-visible spectrum, we will find that all kinds of leafy vegetables with high pesticide residues, such as Chinese cabbage, celery, leek, rape and so on.

If the rapid pesticide detector is used to detect organophosphorus and carbamate, the over-standard rate of pesticides in other vegetables is not low.

The sampling survey data in the southern region showed that the five vegetables with the highest over-standard rate of pesticide residues were kale, balsam pear, green melon, rape and Chinese cabbage.

(sampling data, for reference only! If the situation is different from place to place, there are bound to be differences.

Pesticide residues in vegetables in urban areas, suburbs, farmers' markets and supermarkets show the following situation.