Thursday, April 28, 2011

Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious?


"A landmark study on the topic by Donald Davis and his team of researchers from the University of Texas (UT) at Austin’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry was published in December 2004 in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition. They studied U.S. Department of Agriculture nutritional data from both 1950 and 1999 for 43 different vegetables and fruits, finding “reliable declines” in the amount of protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, riboflavin (vitamin B2) and vitamin C over the past half century."
via Dirt Poor: Have Fruits and Vegetables Become Less Nutritious?: Scientific American.

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