This one basket of strawberries contained 20 different pesticides

The strawberries you’re eating probably have pesticides on them. Same with the celery, spinach, peaches, pears and tomatoes you picked up at the supermarket.

Some 70% of samples of 48 nonorganic fruit and vegetable samples had pesticide residue — even after thoroughly washing or, in some cases, peeling, an analysis of the U.S. Department of Agriculture by Washington, D.C.-based environmental nonprofit research organization Environmental Working Group found. The USDA found 178 different pesticides, and more than 98% of the samples of some of this produce had at least one pesticide. A single sample of strawberries had 20 different pesticides.

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“People think the produce they’re buying is pesticide-free, or they don’t think about that,” said Sonya Lunder, a senior analyst at EWG. “This is a good wake-up call for them.”

The Environmental Working Group singled out produce with the highest loads of pesticide residue, calling them the “Dirty Dozen” on its “2017 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce.” The list includes strawberries, spinach, nectarines, apples, peaches, pears, cherries, grapes, celery, tomatoes, sweet bell peppers and potatoes. See the full list, which includes 50 fruits and vegetables.

The “Clean Fifteen,” on the other hand, were: sweet corn, avocados, pineapples, cabbage, onions, frozen sweet peas, papayas, asparagus, mangos, eggplant, honeydew melon, kiwi, cantaloupe, cauliflower and grapefruit.

Pesticides are chemicals used on crops to keep away insects and infections, and considered toxic, according to research from Penn Stat. The effects on a person’s health depend on the toxicity of the product as well as the amount of exposure (farmworkers and applicators are more likely to be affected than those not working in the field), and can lead to skin, eye and respiratory irritation or nausea, headache and muscle weakness. Consuming “organophosphate insecticides,” which is one group of pesticides, can also affect children’s development, according to the report.

Consumers can avoid some pesticides by opting for organic options. There’s no scientific evidence that there are more health benefits to eating organic fruits and vegetables, according to some experts but they do come with fewer pesticides, according to the EWG, and people who consumed organic over conventionally grown produce had fewer pesticides found in their urine samples.