Are organic foods a healthier alternative to other foods?

Are organic foods a healthier alternative to other foods?

Susan Silberstein & Marilyn Joyce (Health and Nutrition Educator & Heath Counselor) gives expert video advice on: Are organic foods a healthier alternative to other foods?; How do I know if a food is organic? and more...

Eating organic foods is considered a healthy choice because you're not dealing with pesticides, herbicides, genetic modification of the foods. It is pure food growing, in healthier soils. It's done in a way that where the crops are rotated, and this allows the soils to become replenished. So, the crops that are grown organically contain a higher degree or higher level of nutrition, nutrients especially the minerals. You see a really significant increase in most of the minerals and in fact say some of the Vitamin C, some of the B vitamins, iron. Very significant increases in the food grown organically.