From: Damien Sullivan (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Sun Apr 13 2003 - 00:18:38 MDT
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 10:08:29PM -0500, Barbara Lamar wrote:
> beginning to go to seed, which makes the greens bitter). The fresh stuff is
> SO much better than grocery store produce. I can't put my hands on any
> published research on the subject, but the fresh stuff HAS to have more
> vitamins than stuff that was harvested several days earlier.
And tomatoes in particular have got to be much better... I had dreams of
growing tomatoes beneath grow-lights in my apartment, but I discovered my
stuff/room ratio is too high.
I have recently been seeing reports of studies saying organic vegetables have
higher levels of vitamins or cancer-fighting chemicals than ones raised with
pesticides, possibly from the latter not needing to produce defenive chemicals
because the bugs didn't get to them.
-xx- Damien X-)
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