WHY THE STICKY LABEL ON FRUIT?
Have you noticed the little “brand” stickers on your bananas, apples, peaches, pears, mangos, kiwi and other seasonal fruits? Those stickers help the store clerk distinguish between Fuji apples and Gala apples. That little helpful sticker has the price look up (PLU) code to speed up the check out process. Did you know that look up number also tells more? The number on that little sticker also tells howthe product is grown or created. For conventionally- grown fruit, the PLU code on the sticker consists of four numbers. Organically grown fruit has a five-numeral PLU beginning with the number 9. Genetically-engineered fruit has a five-numeral PLU beginning with the number 8. When I read about this labeling, I decided to scout my refrigerator for the little stickers. The bananas and apples both were four digits – meaning conventionally-grown fruit. So using this numbering system, a conventionally-grown banana would be 4011, an organic banana would be 94011 and a genetically-engineered ban
