Last night, I went to MOD Pizza. I had a margherita pizza on whole wheat crust. The main ingredient is the crust. The website What’s on my Food states that wheat grain has 4 pesticide residues; these are deltamethrin, azoxystrobin, boscalid, and metconazole. Because I do not know if MOD Pizza uses regular tomatoes or canned tomatoes for their pizza sauce, I decided to look up canned tomatoes (I already knew tomatoes had a high pesticide count). Canned tomato have been found to have 5 pesticide residues which are methamidphos, o-phenylphenol, azinpho methyl, endosulfan I, and dimethoate. The last two main ingredients on a margherita pizza are mozzarella cheese and basil. The website does not have information on mozzarella and basil. I would assume mozzarella would not have many pesticide residues due to it being made from milk. Basil, on the other hand, I would be really curious to find out how many pesticides residues are used on this herb.
Sounds like a delicious dinner! I did my literature review on dioxin which is a byproduct of pesticides - apparently it is most highly accumulated in animal products. I'm not sure if it counts as a pesticide, but unfortunately cheese is not immune :(
ReplyDeleteYour whole wheat pizza dough had less pesticides than my cucumbers! I am in disbelief because you would assume cucumbers are better.
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