That little sticker is trying to tell you something

Next time your in the grocery store or market searching for the best looking fruit or veggie, take a second look at the PLU sticker. Price look up codes are a set of numbers that are there to make check-out a lot easier and to tell you whether your food was conventionally grown, organic or genetically modified/engineered (GMO). Let's take a banana for example. If the sticker has 4 numbers and begin with 3 or 4 (4011) then it would be conventionally grown. If the sticker has 5 digits and has a 9 in front of it (94011) then it was organically grown. If it has 5 numbers and has an 8 in front of it (84011) then it was genetically modified or engineered. What does genetically modified mean? It means that some scientists decided to play around with the structure/genes of the fruit, adding a little here and taking a little there, to create a larger more colorful fruit or veggie. Go ahead and take a look around your kitchen and find out what your really eating. You may be surprised.