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Today's Vegetables
Are today's Vegetables as good as they used to be?
I caught the show, and my wife and I buy at Wegmans they have great produce
and during the summer we go to farm stands and local farms.
Our fish we buy at Wegmans, and meat at Costco.
and during the summer we go to farm stands and local farms.
Our fish we buy at Wegmans, and meat at Costco.
Did anyone else happen to catch Alice Water's last night on 60 Minutes ?
"I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides. And everybody deserves this food. And that's not elitist," Waters argued.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/13/60minutes/main4863738.shtml
It is time for me to go out and purchase more liquid minerals. Sigh.
Oh crumbs I wish I didnt know that !
According to new research, produce in the U.S. not only tastes worse than it did in your grandparents' days, but also contains fewer nutrients. In fact, the average vegetable found in today's supermarket is anywhere from 5 percent to 40 percent lower in minerals such as magnesium, iron, calcium and zinc than those harvested just 50 years ago.
Today's vegetables are larger, but do not contain more nutrients. Jumbo-sized produce actually contains more "dry matter" than anything else, which dilutes mineral concentrations.
An additional problem is the "genetic dilution effect," in which selective breeding to increase crop yield has led to declines in protein, amino acids, and minerals. Breeders select for high yield, effectively selecting mostly for high carbohydrate content.
And finally, as a result of the growing rise of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, modern crops are being harvested faster than ever before, meaning that produce has less time to absorb nutrients either from synthesis or the soil.
Sources:
Time February 17, 2009
The Journal of HortScience February 1, 2009
Today's vegetables are larger, but do not contain more nutrients. Jumbo-sized produce actually contains more "dry matter" than anything else, which dilutes mineral concentrations.
An additional problem is the "genetic dilution effect," in which selective breeding to increase crop yield has led to declines in protein, amino acids, and minerals. Breeders select for high yield, effectively selecting mostly for high carbohydrate content.
And finally, as a result of the growing rise of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, modern crops are being harvested faster than ever before, meaning that produce has less time to absorb nutrients either from synthesis or the soil.
Sources:
Time February 17, 2009
The Journal of HortScience February 1, 2009
How nutritous can the genetically modified ones be as well?? There are a lot of those out there.
Also don't forget all the pesticides on our veggies now....very bad!
Also don't forget all the pesticides on our veggies now....very bad!
oops == "are" grandparent's should be "our" grandparent's
Probably not. From what I understand, there are less nutrients in the soil they use and although bigger, they contain less minerals than the vegetables are grandparents used to eat when they were young.
Do you mean do they taste as good ,you know I havent thought about it,but I dont think they do.Cauliflowers dont have much taste anymore
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