Organic food no more nutritious than non-organic, study finds

Who gave two * on this? It's a one star at best, point being, it's another lie to promote big agro and fast food, we grow as much as possible, in fact just made a big salad from produce.

funny

I don't care what any study says, I'll keep to my foods that aren't stuffed with random bull shit like Bisphenol-A.

Plus Whole Foods supports local products and produce, that I'll happily pay a dollar or two more for then feed some super company money for assembly line products.

They are probably as nutritious, but overall they are probably better for the environment. I can't really afford organic food at the moment, but given a choice I would buy organic stuff, certainly fruit and vegetables anyway.

Too right ;) it seems they don't know when to stop.

Studies of the nutrient content in organic foods vary in results due to differences in the ground cover and maturity of the organic farming operation. Nutrient content also varies from farmer to farmer and year to year. However, reviews of multiple studies show that organic varieties do provide significantly greater levels of vitamin C, iron, magnesium, and phosphorus than non-organic varieties of the same foods. While being higher in these nutrients, they are also significantly lower in nitrates and pesticide residues. In addition, with the exception of wheat, oats, and wine, organic foods typically provide greater levels of a number of important antioxidant phytochemicals (anthocyanins, flavonoids, and carotenoids).

[link to www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

anthocyanins are great at cancer prevention so they are evil they have to go under their reasoning anyways.

Last Edited by Fhirinne on 09/03/2012 09:01 PM

I never really ever thought it had as much to do with nutrition, but actually this:

[link to en.wikipedia.org]
Organic foods are foods that are produced using methods that do not involve modern synthetic inputs such as synthetic pesticides and chemical fertilizers. Organic foods are not processed using irradiation, industrial solvents, or chemical food additives.

My point is that the story is misleading as far as I am concearned.

nutritional science is a joke

all food is poison to one degree or another. the eating habit is actually a metaphysical technique that we use to sedate ourselves and lower our vibration in order to match it to the environment. When you eat you lose energy in the form of heat. more than 50% of your body's energy is used in the digestive process. This promotes relief from tension / pressure / stress when your vibration is much higher than those around you and the environment, but in turn keeps you weak, sick and apathetic, which the bulk of your energy and blood flow on the stomach. Very few people actually think with their brains, most use their genitals or their stomach to think.

That is why I say: The biggest secret to perfect health besides conservation of sexual energy is quitting the eating habit. Sadly, most people will never understand this.

A fairy tale of whole paycheck.....
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If you read the study, and read the info that was glossed over, the nutrients that they found were the same in orgnics and non-organics are not really the ones that make organics valuable.

What makes organics valuable are the trace minerals and nutraceuticals (antioxidants like polyphenols, not vitamins). You eat organcs for the lower chemical content, which the study confirmed they had, and for more antioxidant and nutraceutical content.

For example, the cancer-fighting, anti-inflammatory agents in ginger, for example, aren't due to its content of vitamin A, B, C, D, E or K, or the amount of protein, starch or fat in it. If all you are looking for in a food is a vehicle for those USDA-defined macro- and micro-nutrients, then you can skip buying organics.

So the things that the study found that organics are higher in, are the important things to me: fewer chemicals, more trace minerals and phenols.

I agree that the story is misleading. It's the kind of thing that agrigulture industry funded scientists kick out from time to time to confuse people who don't understand functional nutrition and health foods.

I don't mind because when the dummies turn onto something good that I like, and it goes mainstream, it just makes that thing more expensive and harder to get for me.

Maybe you should find the definition of organic...

It has nothing to do with nutrition, it has to do with safety from pesticides...

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

Just no added pesticides.

I hope this caused whole foods to be less crowded. That place is a zoo every time I go :). I love it!

And remember vitamins are bad for you as well. The authority says so and they are never wrong or have agendas.

Also the sellers of Vitamins don't have any agenda either right?

I bet the study was paid for by Monsanto

I eat foodas that make my muscles, bones and tendons grow stronger.

It's good to eat organic food because of the pesticides and herbicides, but healthy soil is necessary for better nutrition.

Well that depends on who funded the study.

thats the irony if the whole "green/enviromental/socialist movement", its never about improving the lives of the common man, just the elites.

The elites are the only ones who have been able to afford that stuff.

Most of the Green movement I've seen have been pushing for lower prices for organic food.

FrankenFoods strike again

I love it when you greenie dorks start lecturing farners on the environment.

what's a farner ???

is that somebody not born here ???

missing the point.

organic is more about political, social, even spiritual ideas than nutritional.

Noone ever claimed that organic was somehow "better" for you -at least not here. Perhaps they claim such things in the US.

This has been know since forever.

this.

Okay;

So, an apple which is grown in poison and one that is not would surely have a similar nutritional value.

However, I doubt they take into account the poisons in the non-organic food as they do not appear in any nutritional tables, nor have severe instant effects.
...There effects are long-term.

Good try MSM.

exactly

propaganda !!!

I want to know who funded this study ???
might shed light on motives

Study conducted by the same crack team that brought us gems like Agent Orange is Safe, Flouride is Good for You and Global Warming no doubt.