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How is our food grown? ➡️ Reading food labels ➡️ Where our food comes from matters!
⌛ Time estimate: 10 minutes
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🧰 What You’ll Need:
<aside> ❓ 🧐 Detective time! Grab (or ask a family member to help) a fruit or vegetable from your kitchen with a sticker on it (apples or oranges are most likely to have them)! Do you know how this food was grown? Is it organic, genetically modified, or was it sprayed with pesticides?
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👀 Take a look at the little sticker on your fruit or vegetable. That number is going to give us important information that will tell us about how it was grown!
<aside> 4️⃣ If it is a 4 and it is four digits long (meaning that it is four-numbers long)… then we know that the food was sprayed with pesticides while it was being grown!
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<aside> 8️⃣ If it is an 8 and it is five digits long … then we know the food is genetically modified.
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<aside> 9️⃣ If it is an 9 and it is five digits long … then we know the food is 100% organic and free of pesticides
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