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Modern day intensive farming has a direct AVERAGE LOSS IN VEGETABLES
impact on the nutritional quality of food, which
we can see by looking at nutrition levels of the • Sodium 39% loss
same types of food using historic nutritional • Potassium 16% loss
6 data. For example, comparative data • Phosphorous 14% loss
published in 5 editions, initially by the Medical • Magnesium 33% loss
Research Council, later by the Ministry of • Calcium 40% loss
Agriculture Fisheries & Foods and then by the • Iron 6% loss
Royal Society of Chemistry, shows significant • Copper 72% loss
mineral depletion in foods from 1940 to 1991. • Zinc 59% loss

The results of the 51 year mineral depletion AVERAGE LOSS IN FRUITS
study give an insight to the damage that
is being caused. For example, the data • Sodium 29% loss
shows that Carrots have lost 75% of their • Potassium 19% loss
Magnesium, 48% of their Calcium, 46% of • Phosphorus 2% loss
their Iron and 75% of their Copper. In 1991, • Magnesium 16% loss
you would need to eat 1000% more tomatoes • Calcium 16% loss
to get the same amount of the mineral Copper • Iron 24% loss
found in one tomato 51 years earlier and • Copper 20% loss
400% more Broccoli to get the same level of • Zinc 27% loss
Calcium found in one Broccoli in 1940.