Those Stickers on Your Fruit in the Grocery Store

Posted on March 20, 2006 by Henry Abbott

They tell a story.

According to Food & Wine (via Megnut):

The numbers tell you how the fruit was grown. Conventionally grown fruit has four digits; organically grown fruit has five and starts with a nine; genetically engineered has five numbers and starts with an eight.
Megnut also has word that you will basically never see a five-digit code that starts with an 8, because papayas (84394) were the only GM foods to get their own code so far.

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