Organic vs Non-Organic - which will you choose?
By Kate Morley - 30/07/2009
New research from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine has found that there is ‘no evidence for the superior nutritional content of organic produce’. The researchers studied over 50,000 papers, and a total of 162 relevant articles that were published over a fifty-year period up to 29 February 2008 and compared the nutrient content of organically and conventionally produced foodstuffs.
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