Joe Hille John Martin Peter ZelinkaJason Baker Growing high nutrition food has market opportunity if promoted properly. I think Cleveland Clinic with Dr Mark Hyman will be interested. These questions first formed in my mind two years earlier, when I heard pioneering Australian soil scientist Christine Jones say at a conference that it was possible to buy an orange today that contained zero vitamin C. As in zilch. It got worse. In Australia, she continued, the vitamin A content of carrots had dropped 99 percent between 1948 and 1991, according to a government analysis, and apples had lost 80 percent of their vitamin C. She went on to say that according to research in England, the mineral content of nearly all vegetables in the United Kingdom had dropped significantly between 1940 and 1990. Copper had been reduced by 76 percent, calcium by 46 percent, iron by 27 percent, magnesium by 24 percent, and potassium by 16 percent. Furthermore, the mineral content of UK meat had dropped significantly over the same period as well—iron by 54 percent, copper by 24 percent, calcium by 41 percent, and so on. Read more: motherearthnews/organic-gardening/essential-nutrients-ze0z1407zcgp.aspx#ixzz3ATYafXnw
Posted on: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 15:40:18 +0000
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