An equally nutritious and safer substitute is cantaloupe from the United States. A host of other fruits and vegetables provide vitamins C, A and other nutrients. Green beans provide modest amounts of vitamins C and A, and potassium, but little in the way of carotenoids. Green beans are also a major source of the cancer causing fungicides chlorthalonil and mancozeb, the neurotoxin methamidophos, and the endocrine disruptor, endosulfan. Safer and more nutritious alternatives include green peas, broccoli, zucchini, potatoes and many other vegetables.
Grapes are tasty, but provide few vitamins or carotenoids.
Complimenting this slim nutritional profile, grapes from Chile add a load of cancer causing and endocrine disrupting fungicides. Cucumbers have few vitamins or carotenoids. They do, however, have a tendency to absorb dieldrin, a banned, extremely potent carcinogenic pesticide, from the soil. When eaten, dieldrin persists in human body fat for decades. Substitutes for cucumbers include just about any vegetable not found on the most contaminated list.