How Pesticides Affect Our Daily Foods !!

How Pesticides affect our daily foods?

Pesticides are used mainly for agriculture for better Agri- business, consumptions .but sometimes the same commercial pesticides are been used in our daily foods which we have some consumptions.

Introduction: Here are the common pesticides

• Fungicides–These pesticides are used for prevention from mold and fungus
• Rodenticide–This types of pesticides are used for controlling rodents that include rats, mice, squirrels, hamsters, porcupines.
• Insecticides – They control insects who cannot destroy the valuable crops.
• Herbicides– These are also used for preventing from crops.
• Antimicrobials – These are against from microbes which are dangerous for plants or crops.

Therefore, due to the above pesticides, several diseases can see.

• Cancer
• Genetical disorder
• Growth retardation
• Gastric Disorders.

These pesticides mostly affect the immune system & produce oxidative stress. So need of more antioxidants including vitamin –E with vitamin –C (ascorbic acid).

Foods that mostly affect fruits & vegetables by the pesticides

1. Banana
2. Pineapple
3. Mango
4. Avocado
5. Onion
6. Peaches
7. Berries
8. Apple

Vegetables affected mostly

1. Broccoli
2. Cabbage
3. Potatoes
4. Lettuce
5. Spinach

Is food grown using pesticides safe to eat?

Studies said that 90% of daily foods contain pesticides which are silent killers. Heavy use of certain pesticides, such as chlorpyrifos but still no safe. Oranges contain highest 97.98% whereas bread, carrots, peppers are fewer pesticide residues due to users or several uses of pesticides.

So, different between Hazards & Risk

Hazards are those like pesticides & these residues of pesticides are no doubt carcinogenic, neurotoxic,  teratogenic as per the research going on – International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the specialized cancer agency of WHO. Children are more vulnerable to this kind of pesticides residues.These create behavioral problems, autism,

Some common Pesticides with the high presence of risks.

Therefore, pesticides must be there in the agricultural field but at the same using or bad & illegal use or applications in our daily foods should be really monitored & banned by frequent foods audit at the government level.