PLU Codes and What they mean

As you pull out the food from the grocery store you wonder why they bother to put those little stickers on each and every peach. They are hard to take off but tell you a wealth of knowledge if only you can decipher the code. The glue on these stickers is food safe but don’t eat the sticker.
Those little stickers are called the PLU code or the price lookup number that speed you out at the checkout stand. This little code also tells you how the fruit was grown. You can tell if the fruit was genetically modified, organically grown or produced with chemical fertilizers, fungicides, or herbicides. All this valuable information that you did not even know you had.

Here is the code breaker:
Conventionally grown (grown with chemicals) PLU code consists of four numbers.
Organically grown fruit A five-numeral PLU prefaced by the number 9.
Genetically engineered (GM) fruit A five-numeral PLU prefaced by the number 8.

The numeric system was developed by the Produce Electronic Identification Board, an affiliate of the Produce Marketing Association, a Newark, Delaware-based trade group for the produce industry.

I try always to buy as much food as I can that starts with a 9. The next best is anything that does not start with a 8. While all food is to some extent genetically modified by cross pollination and selective breading, I prefer that it be done the natural way and not by the manual transfer of genes of one species to another.

When my children were born they had allergies. I looked at the world in a different light. I started seeing everything in my house as if for the first. Anything that touches our skin is absorbed into their bloodstream in 60 seconds. What foods were we eating? What was I cleaning with? What was in their lotions and soap? What about the sunscreen? And what was I putting in my body that they were also absorbing?
What we use on and around our bodies will impact our health. I searched. I looked. I read. I found natural products and saw my little girl stop having to use all those medications. It helped her body become stronger and able to heal. It may not work for you but it may help. She now does not take anything but one over the counter medicine on very bad days. These products are all natural. They are made with herbal and botanical ingredients. They worked with her bodies not against them. I slowly changed from just baby stuff to my skin care, to my laundry products to what we eat. Join us in our adventure to a better safer life.