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> Anyone that has ever eaten a garden grown anything > can tell you that there is a lot missing in store produce I also enjoy gardening, but from a scientific
by notJim 6y ago
> Anyone that has ever eaten a garden grown anything
> can tell you that there is a lot missing in store produce
I also enjoy gardening, but from a scientific perspective, I cannot support a statement like this. There is enormous room for bias in assessment of produce grown yourself, because of the physical and emotional investment made in said produce.
- newen 6y agoYou don’t need a study published in a peer reviewed journal to know that vegetables bought in typical US grocery stores taste much worse than home grown ones.
- alach11 6y agoI do need that. I’ve had plenty of home grown produce that I doubt could be distinguished from store bought in a blind taste test.
- notJim 6y agoDepends on your skills as a gardener and your grocery store, I suppose. Some of my tomatoes were better than the best grocery store tomatoes and some were worse. In any case, the claim was not about flavor, but about nutrition profile, and a lot being "missing" from grocery store produce.
- bch 6y agoWatch food scientist Harold McGee[0][1] and see if you’re as impressed as I was, and that there’s potentially something in the GP claim. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_McGee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_McGee [1] https://youtu.be/lQvfKNMybWY?t=1230 https://youtu.be/lQvfKNMybWY?t=1230