Re:Don’t Take Your Vitamins
by beagle3 on Sunday June 09, 2013 @02:53PM
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> Modern vegetables are, in general, less bitter than in earlier times.
That does not necessarily mean more sugar - it just means less bitter. (These axes are independent).
Selective breeding puts pressure on easy-to-grow-and-sell (shelf life, size, shape, resistance to pests) and only afterwards on flavor.
And another important (and often forgotten) point about modern frutis and vegetables is that they are mostly picked when green (when not all sugar has ripened yet), and then chemically ripened in a process that does not yield as much sugar as natural ripening.
I would like a reference before I believe that today's fruits and vegetable contain more sugar than those of 50 years ago.
That does not necessarily mean more sugar - it just means less bitter. (These axes are independent).
Selective breeding puts pressure on easy-to-grow-and-sell (shelf life, size, shape, resistance to pests) and only afterwards on flavor.
And another important (and often forgotten) point about modern frutis and vegetables is that they are mostly picked when green (when not all sugar has ripened yet), and then chemically ripened in a process that does not yield as much sugar as natural ripening.
I would like a reference before I believe that today's fruits and vegetable contain more sugar than those of 50 years ago.