Are organic snack foods any healthier?
Not necessarily. While organic chips, crackers, cookies, ice cream, and candy should be free of unhealthful trans fats from hydrogenated oils, many are just as sugary, salty, and caloric as their nonorganic counterparts. And many have just as muchor moreunhealthy saturated fat. Organic potato chips are still potato chips, for example. Are organic foods less likely to harbor bacteria? No. Like any foods, they can be contaminated with Salmonella, E. coli, and other bacteria during growing, handling, and processing. By some accounts, they may even be riskier. You must handle organic foods the same way you do conventional foods, which means washing organic produce, cooking organic poultry and meat to the proper temperature, and not letting the juices from raw organic meats come into contact with other foods. Is organic better for the environment? Yes. And thats the best reason to buy organic. Unlike conventional farming, organic farming does not erode and deplete the soil, and produces les
