Questions tagged [organic-food]
for questions about claims based on organic food, food produced to certain standards.
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Does organic food have more antioxidants than nonorganic food?
I know that there are a lot of studies out there that claim that organic food is not significantly different than nonorganic food in nutritional content, but this new study seems to challenge this ...
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Does commercially-produced cotton cloth contain unhealthy chemicals that cause fertility problems?
The article Czy Twoje ubrania Cię trują? "Wchłaniamy chemię przez skórę. Stąd np. problemy z płodnością" (Do your clothes poison you? "We absorb chemicals through the skin, hence, for example, ...
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Does eating organic food reduce your cancer risk?
CNN (and just about every other news source) report the results of a new study on the effects of eating organic food:
You can protect yourself from cancer by eating organic, a new study suggests. ...
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Did cultivated amaranth "almost disappear" from the Americas from the 1500s to the 1970s?
Iowa State University claims:
After the arrival of the Spanish Conquistadors in Mexico in the early 1500s, amaranth almost disappeared in the Americas as a crop until research began on it in the U.S. ...
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