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> Healthy foods and organics are more readily available now. There doesn't seem to be any evidence that "organic" foods are more nutritious than conventionally

• wil421 7y ago
  I’d like to see a study where they actually take crops and determine the mineral content. The one you reference is a paper where they combed other papers until they found data they wanted. They went through 50k+ studies, found 167 they liked, and only 55 of 167 were of quality. >No evidence of a difference was detected for the remaining 8 of 11 crop nutrient categories analyzed. Not sure how to interpret this.
  • jessriedel 7y ago
    > They went through 50k+ studies, found 167 they liked, and only 55 of 167 were of quality. That is how meta analyses are meant to be performed. This is a heck of a lot better than listening to one study that you like.
• khawkins 7y ago
  If the soil has been depleted of nutrients like magnesium, I'd bet that practices which largely shun fertilizers are going to exacerbate any problem in this regard.
• oh_sigh 7y ago
  why would one expect thst? How would the method you choose to keep insects and other pests off of your produce affect the contents of the produce? I can understand organic food having less "inorganic" pesticide in it, but I don't see why the other contents of the product itself would differ.