A study in Germany has found that organically grown apples have 15% higher anti-oxidant properties than non-organic.
The study in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, compared the content of polyphenols and anti-oxidants in Golden Delicious apples over a three year period.
We do not recommend eating too many apples as, especially these days, the [...]

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Most people do not consume chocolate because of the fantastic benefit of cocoa polyphenols for the arteries – to help avoid atherosclerosis. They just love chocolate. This favoured sweet might be at risk because of under supply of cocoa.
Growing Pains
Mars and Cadbury’s have realised that they have a cocoa problem on their hands. Supply [...]

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Some reports state that, because of the credit crunch, organic vegetable and fruit sales are down around 20%.
This may be a false economy.
Organic food consistently has lower levels of pesticide residues than does non-organic. The amounts of these residues may be relatively small, but their effects can certainly be damaging when they [...]

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Organic health food has some bad news recently when Wholefood Market in Kensington, London posting a huge loss. Now we have a good-news story about organic food – this time from the a shop serving the opposite end of the income spectrum.
Low-price supermarket Asda – owned by USA’s Walmart – reports that organic veg [...]

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