Tips To Bring Fewer Chemicals Home From the Grocery Store

How to shop for foods low in pesticides, additives, preservatives and packaging by-products

Besides food, grocery trips usually bring home a host of unwelcome chemicals that we are better off avoiding. Pressmaster/Shutterstock

A grocery store is a wonderful place: thousands of ingredients and products at your fingertips available to combine, cook, and eat. However, that choice can be overwhelming: While shoppers in the 1970s chose from a mere 9,000 products, shoppers today choose from more than 47,000.