Those little stickers on fruits and vegetables at the supermarket aren't just for the checkout clerk to find the price. You can use the numbers to figure out how the produce you're buying has been grown.
A sticker with four digits means the food was conventionally grown. Five digits starting with an 8 indicate genetically engineered produce (the food's genetic material has been altered), and five digits starting with a 9 means the food was organically grown (without the use of most conventional pesticides or synthetic fertilizers).
Don't worry if you can't remove all the sticker adhesive - it's required to be safe to eat.
Nancy Young <[email hidden]> deliciously posted in :"]news:[email hidden]:
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This is straight out of Reader's Digest:
Those little stickers on fruits and vegetables at the supermarket aren't just for the checkout clerk to find the price. You can use the numbers to figure out how the produce you're buying has been grown.
A sticker with four digits means the food was conventionally grown. Five digits starting with an 8 indicate genetically engineered produce (the food's genetic material has been altered), and five digits starting with a 9 means the food was organically grown (without the use of most conventional pesticides or synthetic fertilizers).
Don't worry if you can't remove all the sticker adhesive - it's required to be safe to eat.
(writer: Neena Samuel)
Interesting info and thanks for posting it. I had no idea. I get so irritated with those stickers.
Michael -- Deathbed statement...
"Codeine . . . bourbon." ~~Tallulah Bankhead, actress, d. December 12, 1968
I've eaten the not just the adhesive, but the stickers as well. Chopped them right up while stuck to the vegetable.
Everyone could use a little more fiber in their diet.
A few times I have missed those stickers until it is too late. I now know what sauted sticker tastes like: tasteless. Anyway, I doubt even the sticker is harmful. I am still alive, and I swear I am not crazy.
I've eaten the not just the adhesive, but the stickers as well. Chopped them right up while stuck to the vegetable.
Everyone could use a little more fiber in their diet.
A few times I have missed those stickers until it is too late. I now know what sauted sticker tastes like: tasteless. Anyway, I doubt even the sticker is harmful. I am still alive, and I swear I am not crazy.
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Donna Rose said:
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Don't worry if you can't remove all the sticker adhesive - it's required to be safe to eat.
Unless you're a vegan and don't like ingesting any products derived from an animal source.
In that event they wouldn't buy anything with a sticker on it, no?
My guess is that would be their choice - however, have you tried finding produce without those stickers lately? I usually root through the bins looking for the occasional one that doesn't have a label on it, since I find them so difficult to remove on some things. And I buy most of my produce from the markets in Chinatown, instead of from the local stupidmarket. I suppose the farmers' markets would be a good source, though. -- Donna A pessimist believes all women are bad. An optimist hopes they are.
Those little stickers on fruits and vegetables at the supermarket aren't just for the checkout clerk to find the price. You can use the numbers to figure out how the produce you're buying has been grown.
A sticker with four digits means the food was conventionally grown. Five digits starting with an 8 indicate genetically engineered produce (the food's genetic material has been altered), and five digits starting with a 9 means the food was organically grown (without the use of most conventional pesticides or synthetic fertilizers).
Don't worry if you can't remove all the sticker adhesive - it's required to be safe to eat.
(writer: Neena Samuel)
Will you please forward me a decoder ring to wear when I visit the supermarket.
-- Alan
"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the relig- ion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home." -- James Michener
Those little stickers on fruits and vegetables at the supermarket aren't just for the checkout clerk to find the price. You can use the numbers to figure out how the produce you're buying has been grown.
A sticker with four digits means the food was conventionally grown. Five digits starting with an 8 indicate genetically engineered produce (the food's genetic material has been altered), and five digits starting with a 9 means the food was organically grown (without the use of most conventional pesticides or synthetic fertilizers).
Don't worry if you can't remove all the sticker adhesive - it's required to be safe to eat.
(writer: Neena Samuel)
Will you please forward me a decoder ring to wear when I visit the supermarket.
Those little stickers on fruits and vegetables at the supermarket aren't just for the checkout clerk to find the price. You can use the numbers to figure out how the produce you're buying has been grown.
A sticker with four digits means the food was conventionally grown. Five digits starting with an 8 indicate genetically engineered produce (the food's genetic material has been altered), and five digits starting with a 9 means the food was organically grown (without the use of most conventional pesticides or synthetic fertilizers).
I've been thinking about this and aren't most of the "traditionally grown" veggies also genetically modified? Take a Texas 1015 (4 digits), and obviously the product of a laboratory (1015 stands for something significant - like 10:15 in the morning when it was finally created).
In a way, all the veggies we've grown all over the decades have been genetically modified, whether in a lab, or VIA selective breeding and crossbreeding.
Those little stickers on fruits and vegetables at the supermarket aren't just for the checkout clerk to find the price. You can use the numbers to figure out how the produce you're buying has been grown.
A sticker with four digits means the food was conventionally grown. Five digits starting with an 8 indicate genetically engineered produce (the food's genetic material has been altered), and five digits starting with a 9 means the food was organically grown (without the use of most conventional pesticides or synthetic fertilizers).
Don't worry if you can't remove all the sticker adhesive - it's required to be safe to eat.
(writer: Neena Samuel)
Will you please forward me a decoder ring to wear when I visit the supermarket.
ROTFLMAO!!! Excellent, Alan. -- -Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> updated 3-13-04. Rec.food.cooking's Preserved Fruit Administrator (I've got the button to prove it!) "The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth of the hole."
Those little stickers on fruits and vegetables at the supermarket aren't just for the checkout clerk to find the price. You can use the numbers to figure out how the produce you're buying has been grown.
A sticker with four digits means the food was conventionally grown. Five digits starting with an 8 indicate genetically engineered produce (the food's genetic material has been altered), and five digits starting with a 9 means the food was organically grown (without the use of most conventional pesticides or synthetic fertilizers).
Don't worry if you can't remove all the sticker adhesive - it's required to be safe to eat.
(writer: Neena Samuel)
Will you please forward me a decoder ring to wear when I visit the supermarket.
Sure, send 5 proofs of purchase and $3.95 s&h.
nancy
I have five TPR labels but no proof of purchase. 🙂 -- Alan
"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the relig- ion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home." -- James Michener
