Foods that keep the harvest honest.
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| Produce | Fiber g / 100 g | Vitamin C mg / 100 g | Pesticide EWG 2026 | Water L / kg |
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Season and harvest
Every food on this list has a month view. Pennsylvania months are from PA Preferred (May 2022). Other months are a published harvest in one named country, not a Pennsylvania season.
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Season, January through December
Green is fresh-picked in Pennsylvania. Blue is Pennsylvania cold storage, not a new harvest. Amber is a published harvest in a named country, not a Pennsylvania season. A pale dot is not in season on the Pennsylvania chart. An empty ring means no harvest month was published. The Pennsylvania months come from the PA Preferred Seasonal Produce Calendar (May 2022). Other states, and the Southern Hemisphere, do not follow those Pennsylvania months.
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- No published month
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Published harvest by country
Every food with a published harvest list is grouped here. A month strip is the harvest in one named country. It is not the season for a whole continent, and it is not a Pennsylvania season.
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How to read the columns
Nutrients. Fiber, vitamin C, and potassium are USDA FoodData Central amounts per 100 g edible portion, not per serving or per cup.
Pesticide rank. EWG’s 2026 Shopper’s Guide: Dirty Dozen #1 has the most residues among the 47 crops; Clean Fifteen #1 has the fewest. A rank is not a reason to skip produce.
Water. Liters of water per kilogram of crop (global average green + blue + grey, 1996-2005), not a single-farm figure.
Season. The calendar shows every food on this list. Green and blue months are Pennsylvania, from PA Preferred (May 2022). Amber months are a published harvest in a named country, not a Pennsylvania season. A pale dot is not in season on the Pennsylvania chart. An empty ring means no harvest month was published.
How to read this page
Wang and colleagues (Circulation, 2021) found lower total mortality around five daily servings of fruit and vegetables versus two servings, hazard ratio 0.87 (0.85 to 0.90). Aune and colleagues (International Journal of Epidemiology, 2017) estimated a relative risk of 0.90 (0.87 to 0.93) per 200 g a day. Those are associations in populations.
EWG’s 2026 Shopper’s Guide ranks 47 non-organic crops from USDA tests done after washing or peeling. About 75% of non-organic samples had a residue. USDA’s 2023 Pesticide Data Program summary reported residues below EPA tolerances in more than 99% of samples. EPA says a detectable residue is not automatically an unsafe level.
Legumes are listed separately. They are not vegetables. Potatoes, sweet corn, and frozen sweet peas are included for their pesticide ranks, with a note that starchy vegetables did not show the same mortality association.
Every food on this list appears on the season calendar. Pennsylvania months come from the PA Preferred chart published in May 2022. Green is fresh-picked and blue is cold storage. Foods the chart does not list use a published harvest in one named country, marked in amber. Those months are not a Pennsylvania season. A store in another state will not match the Pennsylvania months.
Related reading: seasonal menu claims, wellness green claims, and the green claims calculator.
What Longevity produce will and will not say
Does a food on this page add years of life?
No. The page cites group-level associations. It does not assign years to kale, berries, or any other single food.
Should I skip Dirty Dozen fruit?
No. EWG says the guide should not stop people buying produce. If you want fewer residues, washing under running water and choosing organic when you can afford it are the steps the EPA and FDA describe. Soap is not recommended.
Why are some percents missing?
A rank is not a percent. If EWG did not publish the share of samples with a residue for that crop, the chart leaves it out instead of guessing.
Why is water blank for some crops?
The water column uses Mekonnen and Hoekstra (2011) global averages from Table 3 only. A blank cell means this list item does not match a Table 3 crop row. Appendix figures in the same paper are not used here. The table leaves it blank instead of guessing or borrowing a nearby group.
Are fruits from other parts of the world on this page?
Yes. The list includes fruits widely grown in Central America, South America, Africa, Europe, and Asia. Examples include guava, plantain, passion fruit, mango, lychee, jackfruit, starfruit, quince, and acerola, plus pomelo (citrus), breadfruit (Pacific staple), black currant, cherimoya (Andean), and jujube (East Asian). Use Grown in to see one region. The January-to-December calendar includes every food on this list. Green and blue months are Pennsylvania, from PA Preferred (May 2022). Foods the chart does not list use a published harvest in a named country, marked separately, and that is not a Pennsylvania season. Dragon fruit has no FoodData Central row, so its nutrients are blank. Crops EWG did not rank in 2026 have no pesticide rank.
When is a fruit or vegetable in season?
Every food on this list is on the calendar. Green months are fresh-picked in Pennsylvania and blue months are Pennsylvania cold storage, from the PA Preferred Seasonal Produce Calendar (May 2022). A pale dot on that chart is not in season in Pennsylvania. Foods the chart does not list use a published harvest in one named country. Those months are marked in amber and are not a Pennsylvania season. A store in another state will not match the Pennsylvania months.