Eating our five-a-day could mean we’re having a cocktail party, but instead of Mojitos, it’s a mix of weird pesticides.

That is the concerning conclusion from testing of 17 types of fruits and vegetables in the UK last year, which found 123 different chemicals, including 42 linked to cancer and 21 which interere with hormones.

The government, which published the results on November 20, say that in almost all cases, the amounts were within safe levels.

But the Pesticide Action Network UK (Pan UK), which analysed their data, said safety levels only looked at one chemical at a time, while in fact many become more toxic when combined with others, a phenomenon known as ‘the cocktail effect’.

Which fruit and veg were the worst affected?

Grapes were found to be among the worst offenders, wit

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