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Looks Great, Less Filling
The changing nutrition of fruits and veggies.
Tue August 25, 2009 4:00 AM PST
Eating all your vegetables was a lot better for you in the '50s. Store-bought veggies weren't as pretty back then, but according to USDA data, they were packed with a lot more nutrients than their modern counterparts. The likely reason for the nutritional drop is that hybrid crops are often bred for size and color, not nutrients. Click through the slideshow for the stats for a few crops that have gone to seed.
Sources: USDA, Mother Jones calculations.
Crappy Veggies
Why and how have these veggies lost their nutritional value? -pesticides, fertilizers, hybrids? You have a story with no explanation or substantiation. Are you nuts? (How much have they lost in nutrition?)
I answered this below but
I answered this below but doubt anyone will go past the watch ad (how did THAT get by), so here's an answer: Over time, soils lose their nutritional value as plants draw nutrients out and the soil erodes. Impoverished soils produce impoverished plants. Sustainable and/or organic agriculture can slow erosion and maintain the quality of the soil.
This is actually an old worry, with a fair amount of research and at least one book.
JUst because the spinach looks nice doesn't mean it has the same rich nutrient content as spinach grown in a sustainable way.
re: Crappy Veggies
We've just added the explanation for why these veggies' nutritional values have dropped (originally published here: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2009/09/looks-great-less-nutritious). All are conventional. Sorry for the omission.
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Crappy Veggies
They basically fertilize these crops with Phosphorous and Nitrogen from Oil
How healthy can that be?
Looks Great, Less Filling
Couldn't agree more Lithuania. Photos (minus) Journalism
Hybrid Food looks great,
The hybrid food looks great, but from nutrition point view it is on negative side. It is of no use of having these thing.
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Papaya If you could only eat one fruit, the papaya should be it. Pound for pound, papayas contain more vitamin A than apricots, more vitamin C than oranges, and more potassium than a banana.
for the journailism behind this slideshow
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Vegetables generally carry more nutrition that the body needs than fruits do. However fruits are still as important as anything else. You can sum it up to that it is extremely important to have a balanced diet and while you may not need as much fruit as you do vegetables they are equally as important.
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But the King of fruits is Durian. any1 tried it. Im from Singapore and many southeast Asians love the fruit. it is an acquired taste.
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Fresh is best. Frozen is second best. Canned is third. But a bunch of canned fruits & vegetables are still better than none at all.
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Fruits are as well sweet and delicious to eat are useful to health. I myself like fruit too much and.........
impoverished food
We depend on vegetables for our nutrition, and they depend on the quality of the soil they are grown in as well as factors such as soil acidity and moisture. Soils that produce food year after year become deplenished by both removal of nutrients by the plant and by erosion. Fertilizers can change the acidity, and, therefore, the availability of nutrients to the plants.
Sustainable, organic agriculture slows erosion and maintains the nutritive quality of the soil.
The loss of nutrients in vegetables grown on depleted soils is actually an old story.
Organic
Can't tell if this broccoli was grown organically or not. So hard to compare. Factory food? What? Depeletion of soil quality is a major problem, especially using oil-based phosphate fertilizer. The soil just becomes the repository for the phosphates, and has no quality outside of that.
MJ should follow up with some detail. Copy editor wanted. Or maybe just an editor.
More detail
Please see the introductory text that's been added to the page.
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Numbers can be deceiving
In spinach, for example, our bodies can only absorb a small amount of the iron present - the rest of it is bound by oxalates and is not bioavailable. So while I agree that conventional mass-farming practices have degraded the quality of many of our fruits and veggies, the numbers involved here are not necessarily as dire as they may seem.
From a nutritional
From a nutritional standpoint, perhaps not a total disaster -- but why this is happening is, I submit, a point of some concern.
What is the point?
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Although we have all apparently become addicted to 'eye candy', this information would have been more effectively presented as a table [i.e., spreadsheet], and well, yes, some 'journalistic information' would have made it much more interesting and relevant. After why do i have to click through pictures of a tomatos and spinach just to see a few numbers that would have been more useful presented in a simple table. Yikes. Perhaps Mother is getting, well, senile.
Looks great but not nutritional?
Anything attractive looks a lot more enjoyable.
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...and taste...
Non organic and GM fruits and vegetable have also lost 85% of their flavor (my calculations). They also take from the earth and give nothing except poisons creating dead spots in the Gulf,
GM plants are real nice: Here take our seeds and you better not save them - buy more. Or we will sue you. Monsanto is doing that all over the world. Wrecking small economies all over the world with their patented seeds so you can spray Roundup on the plants. That is why Mendocino County in CA can and is becoming an organic farming area. No GM farming allowed.
I love Papaya and would love
I love Papaya and would love to try Durian, but they aren't indigenous to where I live or can't be grown there! A conundrum if you are trying to eat locally grown, in season, indigenous foods. It's hard to keep the carbon footprint down knowing there are so many tasty, nutritious choices on the other side of the world!
Another factor in nutrition loss
In Michael Pollan's books -- The Omnivore's Dilemma & In Defense of Food -- he mentions that fruits and veggies have not been bred or selected for nutritional value over the course of recent years. Looks are definitely a factor, but growers and distributors also wanted produce strains that would look good after shipment over ever longer distances, say from Chile to Chicago. Until we start eating produce grown locally using sustainable farming practices, we will be getting less nutrition than we pay for, and more unknowns than we want or need.
i have nutrition...like
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Interesting analysis.
One thing puzzles me though. How can carrots have 126% less Vitamin A than they used to? If they have none now that would be 100% less right?
Do carrots end up with a negative amount of Vitamin A now?
So, what about if I grow my
So, what about if I grow my own?
Sad but ture...
It is a very true and very sad article. Due to escalating marketing demands, wrong storage and other reasons, the fruit and veggies in our markets are becoming almost more harmful than useful. Don't you remember, how sweet, refreshing and juicy the fruit were just 15-20 years ago, when we were children? This is really sad...
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