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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>
  • To: Sustainable Agriculture Network Discussion Group <SANET-MG@LISTS.IFAS.UFL.EDU>, Market Farming <marketfarming@lists.ibiblio.org>, permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] [SANET-MG] Nutrient Dense Food: The Coming Market Standard | Real Food Campaign + REMINERALIZE THE EARTH - Home
  • Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:23:59 -0500

On 1/11/2011 10:25 AM, Michael Astera wrote:
Brix is a measure of dissolved solids in a liquid. It was
traditionally used to measure the sugar content of grape juice etc
when making wine and beer. These days it is used to measure many
liquids using a refractometer, which looks like a short telescope with
a glass plate on one end. A drop of juice or plant sap is placed on
the glass plate and then the refractometer is held up to a light
source and you read the Brix by looking through the eyepiece.

This page explains what Brix is all about:
http://realfoodcampaign.org/content/brix
Home » Brix
Brix
What is Brix?
"Brix" is a technical term to measure and quantify the amount that light is bent passing through a fluid.

Read the page on Quality Standards:
http://realfoodcampaign.org/farmer/standards
Home » Farmers » Quality Standards
"Quality Standards
The Real Food Campaign has as one of its objectives helping to define standards for Nutrient Dense Crops
Primary adviser in this process is Dr Arden Andersen, leading consultant in the field of Nutrient Dense crops and medical doctor.
The standard recommended by Dr Andersen has 4 pieces:"

And the page defining "Nutrient Dense Crops"
http://realfoodcampaign.org/content/crops
Home » Crops
Crops
Nutrient-Dense Crops
What does the term mean?
How do we produce them?
[this link: "CLICK HERE for 2-page .pdf" intends to load the following document:]
http://realfoodcampaign.org/sites/default/files/PrinciplesToProduceNutrientDenseCrops.pdf

Start here and select from the sidebar menu:
http://realfoodcampaign.org/home

Go here and download these documents for further explanation of the relationship between plant sap Brix readings and plant nutritional quality, keeping quality and flavor, plant predator resistance
and how to grow crops with high Brix:

http://realfoodcampaign.org/documents
Documents

This page contains links to general information pertinent to the Real Food Campaign.

* Principles to Produce Nutrient Dense Crops This is the PDF version of the PowerPoint document that Director Dan Kittredge uses in workshops to farmers around the country. You will soon be able to purchase an audio file of him presenting this material to the Eco-Farm Conference in California.
http://realfoodcampaign.org/sites/default/files/PrinciplesToProduceNutrientDenseCrops.pdf

* Refractive Index of Crop Juices A Brix chart that specifies the parameters for poor, average, good and excellent Brix for a large number of crops.
http://realfoodcampaign.org/sites/default/files/RefractiveIndexOfCropJuices.pdf

* Nutrient Dense Crop Production Bibliography
http://realfoodcampaign.org/sites/default/files

See also:
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High Brix Gardens
http://www.highbrixgardens.com/
Grow Your Own Nutrition!
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highbrix-gardens-grow-nutrition

"High Brix Gardens is all about helping you improve your health by growing the highest quality produce."

"What is the difference between health and disease? What is the fundamental cause of disease? What is true health and how do foods fit into this matrix? The answer to these and many other perplexing problems can be summed up in one word: energy. It is energy that determines the degree of health or disease. It is the lack of energy that causes disease while the right kind of energy causes us to be healthy. Food is an energy package that can push us toward health or away from it. Energy is associated with the minerals in foods. Thus the higher the mineral density in foods, the higher the energy available to the body. This balance of energy can be termed nutrition. Sickness and disease are the result of a nutritional deficiency—not a drug deficiency."



  • Re: [permaculture] [SANET-MG] Nutrient Dense Food: The Coming Market Standard | Real Food Campaign + REMINERALIZE THE EARTH - Home, Lawrence F. London, Jr., 01/11/2011

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