What is the nutritional value of non-organic food?
by a bunch of nature-loving growers to distinguish their “naturally-grown” foods from conventionally grown foods, so that they could sell a nutritionally-deprived, unhealthy, disease-ridden, pest-eaten, growth-stunted product for ten times the price of the conventional alternative, then I would have to say that the nutritional value of non-organic foods is quite a bit higher than that of organic foods. The conventional foods receive plenty of commercial fertilizers that help ensure adequate growth and development of vitamins and minerals in the food. They get plenty of herbicides to ensure that weeds don’t compete with the crop for nutrients from the soil. They get plenty of insecticides to ensure that insects don’t suck all the nutrients out of the food. And after the crops are harvested, they get preservatives added to them to help keep the foods fresh and chock-full of vitamins and minerals. None of those things are permitted in “organic foods”. But, most importantly, conventional c
