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Needs a lot more arguments to tie that to a rising iron deficiency, or any rising deficiency. There have been many changes in the consumption pattern in the la
by wouldbecouldbe 3y ago
Needs a lot more arguments to tie that to a rising iron deficiency, or any rising deficiency.
There have been many changes in the consumption pattern in the last century.
Many fruits & vegetables where not available year round, so even if they have less mirconutrients, orange, bananas, strawberries, etc. used to not be consumed as much as now.
There's also been a huge drop in the consumption of organ meats, which contain much more vitamin and minerals then most vegetables (with the exception of vitamin c).
- dehrmann 3y agoI'm also curious what widespread deficiencies there are.
- crazygringo 3y agoExactly. Does it really matter if fresh pineapples or mangoes have half as many of certain vitamins, if we're eating 30x as many of them than were available 40 years ago, when we were lucky to eat them more than once a year? And it's also certainly not like the ways in which we used to can and/or boil vegetables was great at preserving vitamins either. We currently have unprecedented variety of produce. Even if one item is lower in a vitamin that it didn't have much of to begin with, now you get to eat something else that naturally has tons more.
- smolder 3y agoYes, it matters. Is it unsurmountable? No, that's different.
- munbun 3y agoAround 2009, I found a bottle of “grandma’s original molasses” from the mid-90s which the nutritional facts claiming had 30% DV of iron. I compared it against a new bottle at the time, which listed 10% DV. Today, a new same jars have iron listed as 2%