| You read more and more about the benefits of | | | | possible, veg can ever look so uniformly perfect. On |
| consuming organic food as opposed to chemically | | | | the other hand, organic veg have what is known as |
| enhanced food. While some studies say that there is | | | | more "dry matter" this means it is made up of more |
| hardly any difference in the health content of | | | | food substance and less water. This will help towards |
| genetically modified and unaltered organic food. most | | | | making up more of your daily allowance of nutrients. |
| of us understand this is not true. | | | | Another advantage for consuming organic vegetables |
| If you observe some of the fundamental differences | | | | is the higher count of phytonutrients. These are life |
| between the separate food types, intelligence will be all | | | | enhancing antioxidants that are an intrinsic part of the |
| you need to understand that there is a lot more benefit | | | | plant, as a defence against harmful pesticides and |
| to be derived from eating organic food as opposed to | | | | chemicals while it is growing. It goes without saying that |
| its inferior counterpart. | | | | a plant allowed to grow without pesticides and |
| To begin with, the whole issue of genetic modification | | | | chemicals will have a lot more of its natural defences |
| now associated with today's conventional methods of | | | | (pyhtonutrients) intact, as a result of which will be |
| producing crops, show that the produce is grown with | | | | passed on to you as you consume them. The more |
| more water, this gives an unnatural growth rate and an | | | | common phytonutrients are; lycopene (present in |
| artificial look that to be true. Just look at all the myriad | | | | tomatoes), polyphenols (found mainly in potatoes) and |
| of in your local hypermarket and you will know it is not | | | | flavenols (to be found in apples). |