Hungry, you grab an apple from the fruit bowl. You look for the little sticker and then scrape it off with your fingernail. Then it hits you: "What do the numbers on the sticker mean?"As much as we don’t like them, the stickers attached to fruit do more than speed up the checkout process. The PLU code, or price lookup numbers tell you how the fruit was grown. By deciphering the numbers you can tell if the produce was grown with chemical fertilizers, is genetically modified, or organically grown.
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