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Organics Not More Nutritious

October 1, 2008: 06:11 PM EST
Organic foods are not nutritionally superior to conventional foods, says Susanne Bügel, PhD, lead researcher and associate professor, Department of Human Nutrition and Centre for Advanced Food Studies, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen. Dr Bügel and her colleagues found that there was “no evident trend towards differences in element content of foodstuffs or diets due to the use of different cultivation systems, and differences between harvest years exceeded those seen between cultivation methods.” They also found no significant differences in the retention of [nutritional] elements in rats fed diets derived from different cultivation systems examined the study. The study looked at the effects of three different cultivation systems on major and trace elements in a range of dried foods, and the retention of these elements by rats fed these foods. The absence of pesticides in the organic produce may confer some benefits, the researchers noted. Organic producers’ associations have criticized the study.
Joanna Cosgrove, "Organic—Not Healthier?", Neutraceuticals World, October 01, 2008, © Neutraceuticals World
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