Organic Produce is Smaller in Size

Ever wonder why organic fruits and vegetables are smaller in size than non-organic fruits and vegetables. Here is the answer from Claire Robinson on EcoGlobe.org

"As I understand it, chemical farmers use mainly three elements in their fertiliser--nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium (NPK)--at the expense of the hundreds of complex substances present in the organic fertiliser used by orgie farmers. NPK is good at promoting rich-looking, fast and lush growth, which, however, is depleted in much of the mineral and vitamin content it should have.

This is not to mention the substances like secondary metabolites found at high levels in organic food but at much lower levels in chemical and processed food, which according to research done recently by the UK's Soil Assoc and presented on the BBC's The Food Programme, act on the body like anti-oxidants, preventing cancer and degenerative disease/ageing.

It is tempting to conclude that a lot of the energy that small organically grown plants put into sythesizing nutrients, producing natural disease resistance and forming whatever it is that makes things flavorsome, NPK plants just put into shooting upwards and outwards."

So, while organic produce is smaller, it is more nutrient dense, has more vitamins and minerals, and contains less water. Not to mention Organic fertilizers don't break down soil like chemical fertilizers do. Thanks Claire