The differences between organic and conventionally grown food

Although organic food makes logical sense, there are occasional detractors. Now, in a new analysis, researchers looked at data from 343 studies that compared the compositional differences between organic and conventionally grown crops.

The researchers say that, compared to the two major earlier studies that found only weak and insignificant differences between organic and conventional crops, the new research was able to draw on a much larger and higher-quality set of studies.

The analysis found that in organic crops the concentrations of antioxidant phenols was between 18 and 69 per cent higher than in conventional crops. Organic crops also had an average 48 per cent less of the toxic metal cadmium. Pesticide residues were also four times less likely to be found on organic foods.

The clear conclusion from this is that there are significant and beneficial compositional differences between organic and conventionally grown food.

Source: British Journal of Nutrition
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