There is more of a new vitamin in veggies and fruit and that is vitamin S; S for sugar. I noticed lately that little grape tomatoes taste more like grape than tomato! Other offenders are corn and green peas; corn that is so sweet that it doesn't taste like corn. Oranges that are too sweet. Grape fruits that have lost tartness. Even lemon is sweeter. I read that even soya bean has changed to be sweeter and it has less protein. Probably it is the same for most pulses; they have modified them to cook faster so they have more starch and less protein.
> - We choose fruits and vegetables increasingly for their taste
People choose from what they have to choose from. And even then, taste seems to be competing with other factors.
Pre Honeycrisp, peoples' choice of apples wasn't great. And among that disappointing selection, the utterly flavorless stand out - Red Delicious - sold well.
If you grow your own veggies at home and compare them to store veggies you will know not all tomatoes are created equal.
One looks like it has been injected by syringe with water, and has almost no taste, which of course makes sense because its is water and not much more. THe breeding has produced a fruit that is just a skin holding water.
"Vegetables half as nutritious as they were in the 1960s"
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"The study found that many crops had lost 20pc to 50pc of several key nutrients."
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So, vegetables are possibly 80% as nutritious as they were in the 60's if these key nutrients capture the complete nutritional value of vegetables, which they don't. Regardless, that's some pretty sloppy linkbait garbage.
Given now bad things are, if you don't correctly supplement every essential nutrient, and even many conditionally essential ones, you could be in a sea of trouble. Even then they won't get you sufficient phytonutrients. To make things worse, food is packaged in harmful plastics, and contains toxic pesticides, also PFAS containing pesticides.
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[ 2.0 ms ] story [ 29.3 ms ] threadAlso Deep Science Ventures / Hollow Harvests is a biased startup that simply cannot be seen to be objective on these matters.
People have been trying to spin stories about soil degradation since... ironically, the 1960s.
While these might be true, the actual answers are usually much more mundane:
- We choose fruits and vegetables increasingly for their taste
- The rise of hydroponics and salad vegetables in general
- Quicker harvests with less time to absorb nutrients
Our diets are much more diverse and fortified compared to the pre-war period - nutritional deficits are not nearly the concern they used to be.
People choose from what they have to choose from. And even then, taste seems to be competing with other factors.
Pre Honeycrisp, peoples' choice of apples wasn't great. And among that disappointing selection, the utterly flavorless stand out - Red Delicious - sold well.
One looks like it has been injected by syringe with water, and has almost no taste, which of course makes sense because its is water and not much more. THe breeding has produced a fruit that is just a skin holding water.
i'd blush but im not a tomato :P
"Vegetables half as nutritious as they were in the 1960s"
Body:
"The study found that many crops had lost 20pc to 50pc of several key nutrients."
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So, vegetables are possibly 80% as nutritious as they were in the 60's if these key nutrients capture the complete nutritional value of vegetables, which they don't. Regardless, that's some pretty sloppy linkbait garbage.