Older fruit varieties are better for you: study

[Aaltrude]

I have taken the liberty of altering the title to better reflect the content of the article.

Old fruit is better for you: study

Friday Apr 13, 2012
Daily Mail

Older varieties of fruit and veg may be considerably healthier than their modern supermarket equivalents, researchers claim.
A pilot study found that an unfashionable dessert apple which dates back to Victorian times had ten times more of a disease-preventing chemical than its newer, shiny-skinned equivalents.
A team of scientists will now undertake a three-year study, examining older varieties of apples, bananas, onions, mangos and teas.
They've already found that the Egremont Russet apple, which is often used to make cider, contains considerably more phloridzin than modern glossy fruits.

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[Mr. Wizard]

Interesting study! Another confirmation that the food supply from "yester-year" was much better than today's mass produced, conventionally farmed products. The organic chicken I purchase periodically tastes like the chicken my Mom use to buy from the butcher's shop when I was a boy. It just costs five times more than it did then!! Supermarket chicken is so loaded with antibiotics and sodium solution to make it look plump that the taste approximates something that doesn't even come close to what chicken from yester year use to taste like. Give me the old food supply any day.......wishful thinking.

[Islander]

Mr. Wiz, this year I'm raising 3 pastured organic pigs and 50 organic free-range broilers. Most of the chix are spoken for (I don't order day-old chix unless I know they're already sold) and the finished hogs will be split among 6 people. It's kind of a cooperative effort — the guys are doing the fencing and carpentry work in the barn — but the chix are my project. Been doing it on a small scale; this year I decided to take orders. Wish me luck...I do it all meself, including the "processing."