Why Fruits Have Lost Their Vitamins | ENDEVR Documentary

Sixty years of producing standardized fruits and vegetables and creating industrial hybrids have had a dramatic impact on the nutritional content. In the past 50 years, vegetables have lost 27% of their vitamin C and nearly half of their iron. Take the tomato. Through multiple hybridizations, scientists are constantly producing redder, smoother, firmer fruit. But in the process, it has lost a quarter of its calcium and more than half of its vitamins. The seeds that produce the fruits and vegetables we consume are now the property of a handful of multinationals, like Bayer, and Dow-Dupont, who own them. These multinationals have their seeds produced predominantly in India, where workers are paid just a handful of rupees while the company has a turnover of more than 2 billion euros. A globalized business where the seed sells for more than gold. According to FAO, worldwide, 75% of the cultivated varieties have disappeared in the past 100 years. Loss of nutrients, and privatization of life, reveal the industrialists’ monopoly over our fruits and vegetables.

I’m 70 and for a fact, store bought tomatoes are NOTHING like the store bought tomatoes of my childhood. I don’t buy them. We eat tomatoes from our garden in season.

What was not discussed was how soil depletion and growing techniques influence vitamin and nutrient values. I was hoping to hear more on those issues.

How much you want to bet this plays a huge role in many of the illnesses that we are seeing today from mental to physical.

Im still young and always thought my mom was being sentimental when she said they dont sell real foods anymore.

I knew I wasn't crazy. Every time I've bought fruit from the store, I've been disappointed in just how bland and unflavorful it is.

It’s important to note that hybridization won’t necessarily reduce nutrient amounts, a plant could even be hybridized to increase nutrients. It’s just that corporations want to select for other traits besides nutritional value, and their hybrids reflect those choices.

I grew vegetables and vegetables when I was a kid in my parent’s backyard. I also planted fruit trees. Remembering the taste of what I grew, I miss it. I’m 61 years old. It’s not too late to do it again.

I'm 49 in NYC and I just recently drove to amish farm in Pennsylvania and found all their food, beef, chicken, watermelon way better than what I've had here. the watermelon tasted like it was in the 80s when I was a kid. I'll be going back there more often.

We should have access to the healthiest food possible and use farming practices that put nutrients back into the soil. The greed of large corporations is a disaster for humanity.

If it's not in the soil, it's not in the fruit or vegetable! No microbes, micro nutrients; when I had a garden, I brought home some horse and (from the zoo) elephant manure. (All they asked for was a small donation in vegetables or fish for the animals!) The size and taste was incomparable to what we can buy today!

If anyone is looking for info on this I highly recommend the book "the dorito effect", it talks about how our food is becoming tasteless for this very reason and how we just cover the bland taste with artificial flavours. Hence the name of the book since doritos are also tasteless but covered in artificial flavour.

over the last couple of years a lot of the villages have started making seed banks where you can bring your own seeds and exchange thef for some other (villages also exchange them between themself). This year my village finally joined and I wish more places started with these seed exchange places

2:01: 🍅 Fruits and vegetables have lost nutrients over the past 60 years due to increases in yield and hybridization. 7:30: 🍅 Researchers develop a long-lasting hybrid tomato through cross-pollination and genetic defect. 12:49: 🍅 The long-life tomato has a longer shelf life but lacks flavor and nutrients compared to traditional farmer's varieties. 22:38: 🍅 The tomato seed industry relies on hybrid varieties that are less nutritious but have higher yields, leading to high profits for seed suppliers. 32:40: 🌱 Child labor and low wages in the seed industry in India. 43:07: 🌱 The privatization of seeds by multinational companies is destroying biodiversity and leading to the dominance of uniform plants worldwide. Recap by Ta

Sad part is these big corporations have reduced population into believing that farming is not something normal people should do. We are so dependent on their supermarkets to provide us that we have forgotten to grow our own vegetables. The system has completely brainwashed & made us handicap. They spend millions & billions to manipulate our thinking.

The problem with all commercial farmers is that their produce is sold by weight, not by quality, taste, or nutrition.

This is why regenerative agriculture including Permaculture is becoming so popular. I am amazed with the enthusiasm of the learners and practitioners everywhere I travel all over the world. Composting helps to reduce the waste and soil regeneration.

Less organic material in the soil is also a big reason for the decline in the nutritional value of everything that grows on it.

the industry doesn't care about tasty nutricious tomatos but they should. i started to raise my own tomatoes because the ones you can buy are tastless, have a strange unhealthy smell, and something feels wrong about it. an Israelite professor once visited the north of Portugal, and couldn't stop saying how tasty and natural all our vegetables and fruits sold by farmers on the side of the road, were.

and this is why every one of us that has a patch of lawn should be learning to grow what we can!