How nutritious is your food?
by Woodland HolisticDid you know that food grown by our grandparents was TWICE as nutritious as today’s crops?
In fact, a landmark study proves this. Researcher Donald Davis tracked the nutrient content of 43 different fruits and vegetables from 1950 to 1999.
What he discovered was that you would need to eat at least 10 servings of vegetables today to equal just one serving from 50 years ago.
Let’s take a look at the USDA nutritional values for produce today compared to then:
- 🍎 Apples: Vitamin A is down 41%
- 🌶 Sweet peppers: Vitamin C is down 31%
- 🌿Watercress: Iron is down 88%
- 🥦 Broccoli: Calcium and Vitamin A are down 50%
- 🤍 Cauliflower: Vitamin C is down 45%; Vitamin B1 is down 48%; and Vitamin B2 is down 47%
- 🥬 Collard greens: Vitamin A is down 45%; Potassium is down 60%; and Magnesium is down 85%
You see, unlike farmers of our grandparents’ generation, Big Agra isn’t focused on nutrition or the well-being of our society.
Their main goal is to make a profit. This means: produce as much food as we can in the shortest time possible. By doing so they’ve stripped our native soil of its lifesaving nutrients.
Because of these profit-driven modern farming techniques, 30% of the world’s cropland is now unproductive. The aftermath is virtually useless soil in terms of producing crops with the phytonutrients necessary for our survival.
Lack of nutritious foods is a top contributor to most health issues in the U.S.
Modern diseases that never affected our ancestors — chronic conditions like diabetes, heart disease, cancer and dementia — are directly linked to low nutrient levels.
A 2017 study {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28672791/ } found that more than 30% of Americans are at risk of at least one vitamin deficiency. And a staggering 67,000,000 fail to meet their most basic nutritional needs.
