Im wondering if someone can tell me why the usually barcodes for organic always start with a 9 and now Whole foods is using organic product stickers with barcodes starting with a 6. I’m not sure how regulated this is yet it’s definitely confusing as a consumer and I would love to know if this is still organic or if this allows the product to be modified or sprayed due to having a different starting number on the serial number. You might not see it super clearly yet to the left Dole is organic and the barcode start with a 9. Why are the Whole foods market brand allowed to be promoted differently ?

Hello all.

I grew up on fish fries and have them a few times a year

My question is ; what's the options for oils for fish fries that are organic. I stay away from canola and vegetable oil

Last year I used olive oil with success. I'm wondering what the other options are. I've heard of beef tallow and or coconut oil

I have gone down a rabbit hole that may be very expensive and before I change all our cookware, utensils, cups, plastic water bottles, buy an expensive water filtration system and convert to mostly organic food is there any actual proof that doing all of the above ACTUALLY decrease the amount of microplastics found in your bloodstream? I guess I’m looking for a study that doing all these things could actually reduce serum microplastics levels in your blood.

If there’s no evidence these things lead to less serum microplastics then i’m not sure I want to spend my money and mental energy.

Is there a study done on the Amish or similar group that proves these organic gurus actually have less serum microplastic levels? Apparently it’s in the rain and the air we breathe.

I moved to Australia from Northern European country recently, and noticed that the organic options are almost always less tasty, bland and even significantly worse quality than their non-organic versions. E.g. organic macadamias, tomatoes, oranges and dates are quite tasteless and often bad quality compated to non-organic ones.

In my home country it seemed to be the opposite; especially organic oranges, apples and bananas were tastier than non-organic ones.

Does anyone know what might be behind this? Or is organic produce in Europe mostly a scam (not really organic)? Thanks!

Edit: My theory is that they try to compensate the losses due to no pesticides by making the plants grow faster with extra fertilizers or other methods, resulting tasteless water boxes made of plant cells

A couple years ago we had our pick of half a dozen or so brands, many of those with multiple varieties and all of them were very good. We could walk in to Costco and get a cart full of multi-pound bags of organic Kettle chips off the giant stack of pallets full of them.

Now? Bupkis. What on earth happened?

What does the "6" mean...??? I have searched and can't find the answer.

I'm a little suspicious. 😅🌱🍏