Food freshness
Charlotte Dovey & Kate Maxwell have written an article in the Daily Mail today in the Good Health section, entitled "So how fresh is your food?" They list the age in days of various fruits and vegetables available particularly in named outlets Morrisons, M&S, Tesco, Sainsbury's. Onions 151 days, potatoes 129 days, apples 124 on so on. What does concern me, as an organic shopper, is that in their second paragraph they say "A trawl around the main supermarkets found pears at 118 days old (Morrisons), apples at 124 days old (Marks & Spencer), grapes at 33 days old (Tesco) and potatoes that were 129 days old (Sainsbury's). Organic produce faired no better than non-organic - and in some cases were even worse".
There was no explanation for this, nor any further mention of organics.
Am I paying good money for rubbish ???????????? Could you please advise me just what the situation is or am I indeed being duped ?
I look forward to your convincing reassurance, as I am treating my husband's breast cancer by trying to feed him untainted food.
Yours sincerely,
Brenda Abbett
Dear Mrs Abbett
Organic food is regulated by law to be organic. However, I am unable to reassure you that all organic produce is guaranteed to be freshly picked.
Organic produce from a supermarket is unlikely to be fresh, as described in the Daily Mail's article. The very best way to ensure you buy fresh organic produce is to buy it from a home delivery box scheme, from a farm shop or from a local farmers' market.
Supermarkets by their very nature have a centralised warehouse system, with trucks bringing food many miles to each store. Buy fresh local organic produce to ensure your husband and you get finest quality fresh produce that is full of goodness, just as nature intended.
Yours sincerely
Ysanne
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