At shown by the table, the most vulnerable of essential nutrients are essential fatty acids, trace elements, minerals, vitamins and oxygen. Research suggests that fruits and vegetables today contain much less amounts of vitamins and minerals, with a tendency to decline further due to storage or heat treatment during cooking.

How to explain the lack of vitamins?

In order to explain the mystery of the lack of vitamins in vegetables, Jack turned to the Ministry of Agriculture, but to no avail. Questions of other organizations also remained unanswered.

An employee of the Ministry of Agriculture later said that the lack of nutrients in the food should not be looked at out of context.

In her opinion, it does not matter that the content of calcium in corn dropped by 78%, because no one eats corn for calcium. She also said that the level of nutrients might fall due to differences in testing food. For example, the concept about what is edible and what is not might change. In other words, maybe twenty years ago people ate an entire corn cob and obtained the nutrients..

Kukuruz = corn

Vitamins disappear

We decided to investigate. When we compared the table nutrients from 1963 with the present data, it became clear that the nutritional value of many types of fruit and vegetables decreased, in some cases drastically. For example, the amount of vitamin C in pepper decreased from 128 to 89 mg. The content of vitamin A in apples was reduced from 90 mg to 53 mg. Loss of nutrients was evident in vegetables and to a lesser extent in fruits.

While we studied the disappearance of vitamins, a warning of the National Academy of Sciences was published: "You need to eat twice as many vegetables to get the same amount of vitamin A".

It seems that the carrots and squash are exceptions and that they still contain high amounts of vitamin A. But other vegetables lost the contents of vitamins and minerals.

Almost half of calcium and vitamin A in broccoli disappeared. And kale is no longer as it was. If you eat kale for vitamins and minerals, you need to know that the content of vitamin A in kale fell from 6500 to 3800, potassium from 400 to 170, and magnesium from 57 to 9.

Kelj = kale

Cauliflower has lost almost half of the total amount of vitamin C, along with thiamine and riboflavin. Pineapple lost calcium, which fell from 17 to 7 mg. And that is not the end - the list goes on.

What's for lunch?

It is recommended that we eat 3-5 servings of vegetables and 2-4 servings of fruit a day. But do we do that? Research shows that we DO NOT. An important question arises: "If we do not, how do we get the vitamins?" The answer is: "we do not get them".

It is clear that our eating habits are terrible, and that we do not like to change them. But even people who have changed them do not eat enough vitamins. Research has shown that a minority of people who chose a healthy diet still do not eat the recommended dose of fruits and vegetables every day. What should we do?

Take your vitamins - it works!

The effectiveness of supplements is confirmed by science. Many diseases - cancer, heart attack, stroke, bone mass loss - all of that can be prevented by taking adequate nutrients. The effect is even greater if you take them consistently and for a long time.

It was confirmed that regular intake of folic acid reduces the risk of colon cancer by 75%!(It is assumed that 90% of the population does not consume enough folic acid). Taking vitamin B6 may reduce the risk of heart disease.

If the theory of the decrease of vitamins and minerals in fruits and vegetables is confirmed, it is clear that people will no longer be able to count on the fruits and vegetables as the only source of vitamins.

Many people fail to consume 5, let alone 9 portions of fruit and vegetables a day. It does not make sense to ask people to eat more than 9 servings to make up for the loss of vitamins.

In such circumstances, vitamin supplements will be simply indispensable. 

Article Adapted from LE Magazine