Let me step on my soap box for a brief moment.
Let me ask you a question...
What is the most nutritious tomato?
a) the one you buy at a farmer's market
b) the one you grow in your backyard
c) the one you buy at the grocery store that may have been grown in CA or FL
answer: They are ALL nutritionally equal.
Please join me in this logical thought process, since when does the geographical origin effect the nutritional content of a food? It doesn't. Plain and simple. The vitamin C doesn't increase or decrease and neither does the fiber based on backyard, farmer's market or the moon. And I for one am sick and tired of people in certain food movements touting this inaccurate claim. STOP it right now. You're spreading lies and annoying me...
Stepping off of my soap box. Thank you for listening and thinking.
Have a wonderful weekend!
1 comment:
I agree with you, to a degree. As far as geographical location, I don't see where THAT much of the difference is. The sun shines the same, though I do know that in certain areas of the country the soil is more deficient in selenium and other important minerals.... I do think that home grown/small operation grown produce is higher in nutritional values, simply because small scale producers tend to be more diligent about replenishing deficient soil with minerals. They know they can get premium prices at a stand in the farmers market, therefor they put more into their product. Same goes for eggs. Do the ones from my backyard taste better than the ones from a chicken farm in Arkansas. You bet. ;) Not because I'm in Oklahoma and they're in Arkansas, but I'm more careful about what I feed my chickens. That being said, I think "food movements" are such a joke. There are people starving AND morbidly obese in the US, and we have people who will pick apart organic vs local vs chain vs whatever. Drives me nuts. People need to learn how to eat to preserve their lives before anything.
Have a great weekend, chica!!!
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