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'Organic has no health benefits'

by Babel-Fish | July 29, 2009 at 08:05 am

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Organic food is no healthier than ordinary food, a large independent review has concluded.

There is little difference in nutritional value and no evidence of any extra health benefits from eating organic produce, UK researchers found.

The Food Standards Agency who commissioned the report said the findings would help people make an "informed choice".

But the Soil Association criticised the study and called for better research.

Researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine looked at all the evidence on nutrition and health benefits from the past 50 years.

However nothing was said about it being safer to eat of which could be a very important factor, i feel the bottom line concerning an opinion from Soil Association should have been given more power to it importance.

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Barbara McPherson

at 08:53 on July 29th, 2009

I think we have to take into consideration where the produce is grown and how far it's transported before consumers get to buy it. For instance, if fresh, organic broccoli is grown in Asia and shipped to Canada to arrive on the store shelves two weeks later then a better choice might well be conventionally grown local. Nutrients start to degrade as soon as the produce is picked. If the plants are grown on soil that is deficient, then the plants themselves will be deficient in nutrients. As far as contaminants go, plants can quite happily suck up an abundance of antibiotics found in sewage sludge. Do you really want antibiotics in your lettuce. Organically raised animal products present a whole other range of items to think about. Again, do you want to consume antibiotics with your beef steak? If you are concerned about the future of this planet, then your food choices will be made partly on the basis of whether the food was produced in a sustainable manner.