New research by Dr Maria Amodio and Dr Adel Kader from the University of California Davies discovered that organically grown kiwis had significantly higher levels of vitamin C and polyphenols. The researchers said:
“All the main mineral constituents were more concentrated in the organic kiwi fruit, which also had higher asorbic acid (vitamin C) and total polyphenol content, resulting in higher antioxidant activity. It is possible that conventional growing practices utilise levels of pesticides that can result in a disruption to phenolic metabolites in the plant that have a protective role in plant defence mechanisms.”
Peter Melchett, the policy director of the Soil Association, said: “This is a very rigorous study. There is clear evidence that a range of organic foods contain more beneficial nutrients and vitamins and less of things known to have a detrimental health effect such as saturated fats and nitrates.”
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Hi ysanne – can you decline the previous one and accept this one? (I used an incorrect formatting tool that deleted some words…all presuming that you accept the comment of course!)
Good to hear that yet more research finds this to be the case. Yet people keep repeating that line…there is no evidence that organic food is more nutritious than conventional….there is plenty!
Check the Soil association’s site on organic milk in particular – 5 out of 5 pieces of research in the last 4 years have found organic milk to be more nutritious.
Another approach is to look at how nutritious food was then and is now, the implication being that the industrialisation and globalisation of the food system is the cause of the decline…and there has been a major decline!
If you click on the label nutrition on my blog (http://olivermoore.blogspot.com) there’s an article that highlights the ‘then and now’ differences in food nutritional levels.
Posted by ollie on 27th March 2007 at 9:42 pm | Permalink
Hi.
Good design, who made it?
Posted by naisioxerloro on 28th November 2007 at 7:42 am | Permalink
This website is run by Steve Taylor http://www.SLTaylor.co.uk with graphic design by Steve Cook http://www.Alternity.co.uk
Posted by Ysanne on 28th November 2007 at 4:06 pm | Permalink