Daffodil International University
Faculty of Allied Health Sciences => Nutrition and Food Engineering => Topic started by: Shahriar Mohammad Kamal on September 06, 2015, 10:29:02 AM
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When you buy organic fruits and vegetables at the supermarket, you probably feel like you’re doing something fabulous — for your health, your taste buds and the environment, if not your wallet. But guess what? You may be wasting your hard-earned cash. Quartz has examined the research and concluded that, in most cases, spending extra for certified organic produce, instead of reaching for the regular stuff, is probably a waste of money. “Higher price doesn’t really mean higher quality,” the site reports, adding that growing foods organically may not mean they were grown in a more environmentally or worker-friendly way, that organic produce’s health benefits may be “teeny-tiny” compared with conventionally grown produce (yes, even with the “dirty dozen”), and that the taste of organic produce isn’t necessarily better either. “Bottom line: If you want to know more about your fruits and vegetables, buy them at the local farmers market, organic or not,” Quartz concludes. And “if you can’t make it to the farmers market, don’t waste your money on that little label.”
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