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There is no valid reason for giving too much value for organically grown food. According to a new study on organic foods, they are nutritionally no better than food grown with synthetic chemicals.
Even though it has been considered that organically produced food has a superior nutrient composition to other food, but there has to-date been no systematic review of the available published literature.
Researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) have now completed the most extensive systematic review of the available published literature on nutrient content of organic food.
Alan Dangour, nutritionist at the LSHTM and study co-author, said "our review indicates that there is currently no evidence to support the selection of organically over conventionally produced foods on the basis of nutritional superiority."
Differences in the food that were detected were most likely to be due to differences in fertiliser use (nitrogen, phosphorus), and ripeness at harvest (acidity), and it is unlikely that consuming these nutrients at the levels reported in organic foods would provide any health benefit.
