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  • From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Livingontheland] "doesn't mean they're as nutritious"
  • Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 12:00:41 -0600


from Organic Consumers Association

Just because they are bigger than they used to be, doesn't mean they're as
nutritious. According to data collected by the USDA, non-organic vegetables
have fewer vitamins and minerals than they did 50 years ago. On an overall
scale of all produce tested, protein has declined by six percent, iron has
declined 15 percent, vitamin C has dropped 20 percent, and riboflavin has
fallen by 38 percent. An analysis of the nutritional drops was published in
the Journal of the American College of Nutrition and suggests the loss is due
to the increased cultivation of crops that were bred for high growth and
production and not for nutritional value.
Learn more: http://www.organicconsumers.org/politics/FEED060417.cfm


paul, tradingpost@riseup.net
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our
most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its
renewal is our only hope.
- Wendell Berry




  • [Livingontheland] "doesn't mean they're as nutritious", TradingPostPaul, 04/28/2006

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