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by niemeyer 4295 days ago
Where's the data showing bananas are more heavily treated than any other fruit?

Here is some actual data from 2009, with analysis for Brazil by a proper agency (ANVISA's PARA, Project for Analysis of Agrotoxic Residue in Food):

http://portal.anvisa.gov.br/wps/wcm/connect/1424b98041ebbfb7...

It's in Portuguese, but you can find a nice color table in page 7 with fruit and vegetable names (rows) and states (columns) providing an idea (red == bad).

Bananas do better than pretty much anything else tested there.