Discovering the Impact of Organic Produce: How Pesticides Affect Flavor and My Shift Towards Organic Eating

I worked in a fruit and veg factory 15yrs ago. Whenever they ran out of organic produce, they would just package basic produce as organic. I'm not saying that happens everywhere, but i now don't trust anything sold as organic, unless i know the source.
 
@kahlmom this is one of the reasons I don't buy it. How can you possibly know unless you grow yourself if its truly organic? You could be paying £3/4 for raspberries for example and they're just 'basic' ones you normally pay £2 for in the organic box.
 
Organic doesn't mean they don't use pesticides, they just have to use certain ones. Someone my niece used to work for grows their own produce, brews their own cider but, because he didn't use any pesticides he couldn't get an organic rating for it.
 
When we are in India, I get delivery of poultry, dairy and fruits and vegetables from my sister's farm..everything is superior in taste and texture.
 
If you think you don't have room to grow your own, this is my front garden. Currently growing broad beans, carrots, beets, lettuce, peas, radishes, onions, leeks, fennel,potatoes, and various herbs. There is more round the back, but this gives me loads more space to grow. And my neighbours love it, they talk to me a lot more now I am out there more looking after it.
 
@esnipe this is what my garden already looks like already with fruit trees and shrubs we have a veg patch 3x5ft but it's already full with garlic, squash, cucumber, 🍆, pepper and Mellon and my 'seating' area is full of potatoes and wormary and back garden has fruit trees, Xmas tree, pond, dog kennels and child's sandpit I have just enough space for 6 chairs lol
 
Yes! Not only that, but properly certified organic plants are also grown in better quality soil, so they will be better for your health due to higher soil nutrient quality. Soil Association certification is especially strict and hard to achieve, so you can be assured of good levels in those foods. We are what we eat (and digest, absorb & assimilate, so said my nutrition teacher)… the better the quality of food you consume, the more likely you are to have the nutrition your body needs.
And just to add, primary care NHS services are not typically well versed in issues with nutritional deficiency - if they can’t medicate or operate on a problem, they don’t know what to do with you. So to prevent disease states due to poor nutrition, it’s up to each of us to take preventative steps… we need to eat as well as we can afford to 👍🏻
 
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