Buy Organic Vegetables, Increase Nutrition
If you want to purchase the most nutritious produce for your family, buy Organic. In addition to lowering your pesticide load, Organic produce is more nutritious.
Organic fruits and vegetables can contain anywhere from 18-69% more antioxidants than conventionally grown varieties. And growing tomatoes according to Organic standards results in dramatically elevated phenolic content and Vitamin C compared to tomatoes grown conventionally.
In Y 2010, PLOS ONE also published a study that was partially funded by the USDA, which found Organic strawberries were more nutrient-rich than non-Organic strawberries, So by starting off with organic ingredients, your meals will naturally be more nutritious.
The solution for more nutritious food is to optimize the microbiology of the soil so the microbes can provide the optimal nutrients for the plant and maximize their genetic expression.
Composting, vortexed compost tea, 10% Bio-char, and mineral replacements are far superior to commercial fertilizers and also improve rather than degrade the quality of the soil.
Try using these methods to grow nutritious food yourself, or find someone locally who can do it for you.
Consuming plenty of raw, locally harvested, organic vegetables is one of the best ways to get the Key nutrients your body needs, in levels that most closely replicate those found in the wild foods of our ancestors.
This will ensure that you’re avoiding all GM (genetically modified) produce, which also less nutritious than non-GM food.
There are additional measures you can take to make sure you are getting the most nutritious food available, as follows;
Choose brightly colored foods: produce in shades of blue, red, purple and dark green are among the most antioxidant-rich foods available.
Eat more bitter foods: many of the most potent, disease-fighting compounds in food (phenols and polyphenols, flavonoids, isoflavones, terpenes, and glucosinolates) are bitter, acrid, or astringent in flavor. Expanding your diet to include these bitter-tasting foods is one of the healthiest moves you can make.
Use herbs and spices: many herbs and spices remain largely unchanged from ancient times. Along with containing some of the highest antioxidant levels of all foods, herbs and spices are also very dense in other nutrients such as vitamins and minerals, and they have medicinal properties. As a general rule, you really cannot go wrong when using herbs and spices.
Grow your own foods from heirloom seeds, including sprouts: This is one of the best ways to access nutrient-dense food, especially if you use heirloom seeds that have been carefully cultivated to produce the best plants possible. You can plant an Organic veggie garden even in small spaces, and sprouts, which are also among the most nutrient-dense foods available, can also be grown easily at home.
Forage for wild, edible plants: some of the “weeds” in your backyard or local environment are incredibly nutritious and very close to the wild plants consumed by our ancestors. Dandelion, stinging nettle, prickly lettuce, chickweed, sow thistle, red clover, burdock, cattails, Japanese knotweed, and sheep sorrel are examples of wild nutrient-rich foods. While you should only consume plants you are entirely sure are not poisonous, learning to gather safe, wild edible plants is quite simple.
Eat well, Be well.
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Paul Ebeling
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