Thursday, July 19, 2007

Another benefit of organic produce

I have noted elsewhere that conventionally grown vegetables must confer significant health benefits as all studies documenting the decreased cancer rates in those who consumed more than five servings a day were done on folks consuming the typical produce found in a grocery store. In other words, whatever negative effect there might be from consuming small amounts of pesticide residue were more than offset by all the good stuff that's in fruits and veggies. An important component of that "good stuff" are constituents called flavonoids. A recent study now shows that organic produce has twice as much of that good stuff as that which is conventionally grown.

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