Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious? (2011)
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Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious? (2011)
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Re: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious? (2011)
#2Well, who here buys their vegetables based on nutrition? Who even knows how nutritious their particular vegetables are (probably not if you have a lab)?
Companies optimize for what customers will pay for, and everything else falls by the wayside.
Re: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious? (2011)
#3See also [0] which seems to argue convincingly against this.
[0] Mineral nutrient composition of vegetables, fruits and grains: The context of reports of apparent historical declines https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S088915751...
Re: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious? (2011)
#4Well, who here buys their vegetables based on nutrition? Who even knows how nutritious their particular vegetables are (probably not if you have a lab)? Companies optimize for what customers will pay for, and everything else falls by the wayside.
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. Always.
Re: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious? (2011)
#5Blueberries that taste the same but are transparent in the middle. Tomatoes that tase water. Cucumber that look great and almost tasteless. You don't know what you are missing if you have never tasted the "real" deal.
Re: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious? (2011)
#6Blueberries that taste the same but are transparent in the middle. Tomatoes that tase water. Cucumber that look great and almost tasteless. You don't know what you are missing if you have never tasted the "real" deal.
Sure, but this is not about taste in the first place, it's about the nutritional value of your produce. After all, eating fulfills more than one purpose.
Re: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious? (2011)
#7Well, who here buys their vegetables based on nutrition? Who even knows how nutritious their particular vegetables are (probably not if you have a lab)? Companies optimize for what customers will pay for, and everything else falls by the wayside.
Strawberries in the USA are huge. Sometimes they remind me of an Apple.
Go to Denmark--they're small but packed full of flavor.
I would much rather have the smaller ones. I wonder if the large, crisp, apple-esc strawberries really sell better. They're certainly bigger.
Re: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious? (2011)
#8Well, who here buys their vegetables based on nutrition? Who even knows how nutritious their particular vegetables are (probably not if you have a lab)? Companies optimize for what customers will pay for, and everything else falls by the wayside.
Strawberries in the USA are huge. Sometimes they remind me of an Apple. Go to Denmark--they're small but packed full of flavor. I would much rather have the smaller ones. I wonder if the large, crisp, apple-esc strawberries really sell better. They're certainly bigger.
I feel the same about hydroponically grown tomatoes. They're just bigs bags of barely flavoured water.
Re: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious? (2011)
#9TLDR: Yes.
Re: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious? (2011)
#10Blueberries that taste the same but are transparent in the middle. Tomatoes that tase water. Cucumber that look great and almost tasteless. You don't know what you are missing if you have never tasted the "real" deal.
Sure, but this is not about taste in the first place, it's about the nutritional value of your produce. After all, eating fulfills more than one purpose.
Wouldn't be surprised if there's a relation between taste and nutritional value though.