Surveys find that people go organic because they believe it produces food that’s tastier, more nutritious and safer.
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[S]tudies have similarly found that slapping an organic label over food, even if it’s not organic, can make people think it tastes better.Generally speaking though, research has found that growing a crop organically or conventionally doesn’t consistently affect its taste.
. . . . In 2012, researchers at Stanford analysed scores of studies on the nutritional value of organics, and concluded that they “did not find significant differences in the vitamin content of organic and conventional.”
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The best study that we have on [conventional vs. organic and cancer] comes from Kathryn Bradbury and . . . colleagues. . . .
When Kathryn looked at the overall cancer rate – for 16 of the most common cancers types – she found no difference in the overall cancer rate between women who ate organic and those who didn’t.
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So, while there is still much we don’t know about the effect of tiny traces of pesticides in our food, the current science doesn’t support some organic food’s big claims.
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