For Your Health Look For Organic Produce Or Even Just Fresh Produce

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Have you ever walked around back of your local grocery store and looked at the empty produce crates?  Let me tell you what you will find.  The produce box labels may read something like ‘Product of Chili’ and the inside will be stained by rot and it will contain the remnants of corruption – in both interpretations of that word.  A badly misconstrued application of the words ‘organic produce’ may even be seen.

When you think that a crate of ‘fresh’ produce has traveled half way around the world to land fresh into your shopping basket, one has to wonder at just how fresh this produce actually is.  I say that you’ve freshly plucked the produce off the display rack to put it freshly into your basket and that’s the only fresh aspects of the decidedly not fresh produce.

You’ve doubtlessly heard the old expression pertaining to one rotten apple spoiling the barrel.  We take it as meaning one person acting badly can cause others to as well but the expression itself is rooted in reality as it applies to fresh fruit.  An apple that is deteriorating from the effects of over-ripeness does rub off on the others and that does accelerate the rotting process.

Now let’s think about another agricultural term – vine ripened.  Why would a grower include the term vine ripened on his produce?  You must’ve heard the term before as in vine-ripened tomatoes.  Does a tomato ripened on the vine taste better than one ripened on your windowsill?  Does any produce that ripens in the way nature intended with the benefit from extra nutrients from the plant actually become better than produce harvested prematurely?  Obviously, the answer to both is a resounding yes.

For a carton of produce to arrive from a distant nation onto your green grocer’s shelves looking fresh and not over ripe, it has to be picked long before it’s ready.  One also has to then wonder at what additives, preservatives or sprays had to be applied to hinder the ripening in the long transit.

So here we are back behind your grocery store in urban Florida and we’re really wondering why in a state like Florida with a strong agriculture do we need to see an empty crate of oranges from Brazil with a few oranges remaining in the box that have turned into rotten mush.  And I suppose we can attribute the international offering to a corporate bottom line.

The farm labor costs were cheaper where the produce was produced.  There were expenses related to shipping the produce so far and additional money went into whatever was used to prevent loosing too much to rot and corruption in transit. Obviously, the potential and the actual spoilage were factored in.  So basically, the end result as residing in your shopping cart was not there with the intent of it being the best you could serve to your family.  Instead, it was just biomass per hectare and the maximum profit the corporation could derive.  That just doesn’t sound all that healthy and tasty to me.  Maybe after you do look at your grocer’s garbage bin, you’ll go looking for a local produce supplier or even an organic produce provider that can actually provide the fresh produce you want.