badbobby Loc: texas

You've likely seen stickers stuck on most fruits and vegetables. These stickers usually have a bar code on them for scanning and a PLU code, which helps the cashier identify the type of product you are buying. But there's more to these stickers than you think. While the PLU is the 'price lookup' number that identifies the fruit or vegetable, it also helps to identify another thing - how the produce was grown.

In reading this code correctly, you will be able to tell if the fruit was genetically modified, organically grown or produced with chemical fertilizers, fungicides, or herbicides. All you need to do is learn to identify and analyze the labels and the PLU numbers. It's a lot easier than you'd imagine.


bar code on produce

Here's what you need to know about the PLU codes:

1. If the PLU contains only four numbers, this indicates that the produce was grown conventionally, or traditionally, with the use of pesticides. For instance, all bananas are generally marked 4011.

2. If the PLU code contains five numbers and starts with '8', this will indicate that the item is a genetically modified fruit or vegetable, meaning that they have been tampered with in an unnatural way. So in the case of a genetically modified banana, it would be marked, 84011.

3. If there are five numbers in the PLU code, and the number starts with '9', this indicates that the product was grown organically and was not genetically modified. So, an organic banana would be marked: 94011.

archie bunker Loc: Texas

Very informative BB. Is there no number to indicate which fruits are gluten free?
Asking for a friend.

badbobby Loc: texas

I dunno
I'm just a messenger

archie bunker Loc: Texas

I figgered you might know.
I guess the brontasauris express gets a little behind nowadays.

Mike Easterday

Good to know

bahmer

Ill try to keep that in mind thanks.

thinksense

Only Grains contane gluten. It is a tenasious elastic protein substance derived from wheat and is used to give cohesiveness to dough.

thinksense

Sorry about "contane" (contain). I'm not awake yet.

archie bunker Loc: Texas

Sounds like I need gluten in my bank account!

badbobby Loc: texas

uess ol Dinny is gettin lame

boatbob2

NOPE,tHE HUMAN FRUITS ARE GROWN IN SF CALIFORNIA,