More NAILS in the ORGANIC FOOD Coffin-162 studies for 50 years-no difference.

[The True Adonis]

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition last year published a study of 162 scientific papers from the past 50 years on the health benefits of organically grown foods and found no nutritional advantage over conventionally grown foods.

http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/ajcn.2009.28041v1

Am J Clin Nutr (July 29, 2009). doi:10.3945/ajcn.2009.28041

© 2009 American Society for Clinical Nutrition
Nutritional quality of organic foods: a systematic review1,2,3,4

Alan D Dangour, Sakhi K Dodhia, Arabella Hayter, Elizabeth Allen, Karen Lock and Ricardo Uauy
1 From the Nutrition and Public Health Intervention Research Unit (ADD, SKD, AH, and RU) and the Medical Statistics Unit (EA), Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, and the Health Services Research Unit, Department of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK (KL).

2 The funding organization had no role in the study design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, or writing of the report. The review team held 6 progress meetings with the funding organization.

3 Supported by the UK Food Standards Agency (PAU221).

4 Address correspondence to AD Dangour, Nutrition and Public Health Intervention Research Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, United Kingdom. E-mail: alan.dangour@lshtm.ac.uk.

ABSTRACT

Background: Despite growing consumer demand for organically produced foods, information based on a systematic review of their nutritional quality is lacking.

Objective: We sought to quantitatively assess the differences in reported nutrient content between organically and conventionally produced foodstuffs.

Design: We systematically searched PubMed, Web of Science, and CAB Abstracts for a period of 50 y from 1 January 1958 to 29 February 2008, contacted subject experts, and hand-searched bibliographies. We included peer-reviewed articles with English abstracts in the analysis if they reported nutrient content comparisons between organic and conventional foodstuffs. Two reviewers extracted study characteristics, quality, and data. The analyses were restricted to the most commonly reported nutrients.

Results: From a total of 52,471 articles, we identified 162 studies (137 crops and 25 livestock products); 55 were of satisfactory quality. In an analysis that included only satisfactory quality studies, conventionally produced crops had a significantly higher content of nitrogen, and organically produced crops had a significantly higher content of phosphorus and higher titratable acidity. No evidence of a difference was detected for the remaining 8 of 11 crop nutrient categories analyzed. Analysis of the more limited database on livestock products found no evidence of a difference in nutrient content between organically and conventionally produced livestock products.

Conclusions: On the basis of a systematic review of studies of satisfactory quality, there is no evidence of a difference in nutrient quality between organically and conventionally produced foodstuffs. The small differences in nutrient content detected are biologically plausible and mostly relate to differences in production methods.

Received for publication May 7, 2009. Accepted for publication July 2, 2009.

[marty31672]

i always thought organic food was overpriced 

[The True Adonis]

i always thought organic food was overpriced 

There is no benefit at all other than to harm the environment, promote false claims and bilk you out of more money.  Organic Food producers bank on human stupidity and their ignorance of Science and they are succeeding marvelously.

[marty31672]

There is no benefit at all other than to harm the environment, promote false claims and bilk you out of more money.  Organic Food producers bank on human stupidity and their ignorance of Science and they are succeeding marvelously.

good to no
i will tell my wife not to even bother looking in that section of the store anymore

[Rami]

I agree.

Organically grown food is hard to get depending on where you live and is over priced. It's to bad but I hardly eat anything organic.

The reason to use organic food is not because of better nutrition content, rather it's to avoid potentially harmful chemicals and toxins from pesticides. Especially if you eat lots of fresh produce.

Also if you eat meat the regulations for the treatment of the animals are better.

[The True Adonis]

I agree.

Organically grown food is hard to get depending on where you live and is over priced. It's to bad but I hardly eat anything organic.

The reason to use organic food is not because of better nutrition content, rather it's to avoid potentially harmful chemicals and toxins from pesticides. Especially if you eat lots of fresh produce.

Also if you eat meat the regulations for the treatment of the animals are better.

Thats not true either.


http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/organic-food/NU00255/NSECTIONGROUP=2
Nutrition.

 No conclusive evidence shows that organic food is more nutritious than is conventionally grown food. And the USDA — even though it certifies organic food — doesn't claim that these products are safer or more nutritious.





http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/04/26/attention_whole_foods_shoppers?page=0,2

Health professionals also reject the claim that organic food is safer to eat due to lower pesticide residues. Food and Drug Administration surveys have revealed that the highest dietary exposures to pesticide residues on foods in the United States are so trivial (less than one one-thousandth of a level that would cause toxicity) that the safety gains from buying organic are insignificant. Pesticide exposures remain a serious problem in the developing world, where farm chemical use is not as well regulated, yet even there they are more an occupational risk for unprotected farmworkers than a residue risk for food consumers.

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