Why Fruits Have Lost Their Vitamins | ENDEVR Documentary
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- Why Fruits Have Lost Their Vitamins | ENDEVR Documentary
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Sixty years of producing standardized fruits and vegetables and creating industrial hybrids have had a dramatic impact on their 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’ great monopoly over our fruits and vegetables.
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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.
Not surprised at all!!
I think it's everything from the seeds, to the soil
Woof
The sad part is the complacency even when you bring facts like this to the table by REAL scientist the first thing people say is there's nothing I can do about it... It is what it is... But that's what happens when you put your trust in a system that NEVER had our best interest in mind.. Love the documentaries and being a vegetarian this is very saddening and informative THANK YOU❤✌️
Almost less than half??
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.
Oof
Here in Canada in the 70s we ate fruit rhat was sun ripened from FLA and Southern Ont Oranges the size of softballs and big juicy flavorful peaches and Grapefruit , Now we eat small hard dry crappy ones from South Africa ripened with a nitrogen pump in a sea can . What happened ? Where did ir all go ?
Why eat organs every day.
Agreed they have no flavour and not worth eating.
Im only 34 and can tell you things taste different. Luckily we live rurally and eat real food off the plants. Not saying those plants are better
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.
me too
Totally agree
Yep
Chem trails affect soil?
While practicing organic growing practices people need to focus on remineralization including the use of kelp and rock dust.
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.
It does play a roll, but an even bigger roll is caused by highly processed fast 'foods', and convenient packaged and canned 'foods' found in every supermarket. These are the 'foods' that contain high levels of sugars, trans fats and many toxic artificial ingredients. All of these things have led to the drastic increases in obesity and poor metabolic health, even in children in recent years.
And no one knows why this all happened while Monsanto has patented 90% of seeds available.
The ease of life is what is causing the mental and physical problems. People have nothing to do so they question their genders now. 🤣🤣 Weak men make hard times.
No it’s processing food.
No. Majority of diet related problems are caused by sugars and heavily processed foods.
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.
yes very true
They should make hybrids with high nutritional composition instead. Is that what you're saying?
@@Hyacinth_Rose
Spot on 😁
I also think we should try to preserve heirloom varieties to keep a nice bank of genetic diversity for our crops.
Bingo. And same applies to genetic engineering. We COULD easily make more nutritious foods with the technology, more drought resistant, more naturally pest resistant cultivars.
We just don't because that would require public money being used so that everyone can benefit instead of a few companies.
There was also ZERO discussion of soil depletion, which very well could be the real issue.
Im still young and always thought my mom was being sentimental when she said they dont sell real foods anymore.
I'm not even 40 yet, and the change is evident even to me. Also, I grow my own, so the contrast is fresh in my mind. Your mom isn't being sentimental (at least about this)
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 not a matter of flavor.
@@OPPAWONTMARRYYOU, the nutrient and vitamin content of the fruit/vegetable absolutely affects the flavor. What do you think is responsible for creating the flavor compounds within the plant?
I work in produce and see what we get at the store….much it comes from far away places and been transported for long periods of time. Some of this product arrives in very poor condition. I wish I had the conditions to grow my own, but here in the citified Midwest it’s not possible. We used to have some good local growers that had stands during the summer months but many of them have sold their farms to develop another warehouse or development 😢
Go to farmers markets - but BEWARE - only SOME of the farmers use good organic methods - so make sure you chat up the farmer first to make sure they are doing the best and most nutritious way :)
@@bookswithatwist-vanvelzerp9262 good advice but for many of us living in urban areas of the Midwest farmers markets pretty much are non existent
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.
It's never too late to start a backyard garden
Agree. The taste and smell of strawberries I remember from the seventies is totally different from what I experience today. I stopped buying them.
@@TheVincent0268 just get them from your local farmers market.
@YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago Many of the "local" farmers markets are simply purchasing from larger growers and trucking it to market. I purchased five tomatoes from a curbside vendor a month ago and they were so bland I knew they had to be hydroponic and/or hybrid. I put the other other four tomatoes in the fridge and here it is a month later and still look almost the same as the day I bought them. Maybe the chickens will eat them, cause I'm not!
@@YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago Indeed. Or I will try to find a variety that grew in the seventies, if these are still available, and then grow them myself.
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.
get some seeds from them too
@@diosamurcielaga9418 the watermelon are actually seedless, sorta
@@xcen1that sucks... I guess it is a hybrid then
@@diosamurcielaga9418 actually the seeds are white, which I assume isn't fully ripe?
@@xcen1 It means the seeds are not fertilized, most likely because they never reached matureness. Are they thin, looking like an empty shell, or do they seem to have a "belly" inside?
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.
We have involuntary access to being used as guinea pigs by big farms in their GMO EXPERIMENTS.
We need to grow our own food, we have become very lazy. Why is it someone else’s responsibility? Of course they are going to be greedy if you give them all that power!
its capitalism
@@fdfdfddfh6430 no, we are shifting into a fascist country with the Marxist pigs that have taken over the Democrat party.
@@fdfdfddfh6430 only capitalism allows you to choose what you buy. Marxist, fascists and communists want to control your food, your medicine, your banking, your children, your housing...and unfortunately whoever is in power usually is a psychopath and the people are powerless to remove that person.
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!
Its awesome that you can take that home, I would have assumed red tape would have barred that 😂
@@pdawg216 This is a very small zoo in a very large state ; and this was in 1979-80. I'm sure it has changed since.
I'm sure some animal farmers on the city outskirts will willingly give you manure if you ask. A gallon or 2 won't be much of a hassle. Take your own buckets. You can also buy a $20-$50 compost bin with multiple layers. You'll get worms for your hens and ducks, and compost for your garden. @@pdawg216
Good healthy soil and biome (microbes, worms, good nematodes, fungi, etc.) also means the soil is able to retain more CO2 as well as WATER ... instead of just releasing and losing it all into the atmosphere. Modern industrial farming is turning the earth into a giant desert. Healthy soil also means fewer weeds!
@@Chocoholiclady66
Hear, hear! Well said and thanks.
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.
Sounds interesting, thanks for the recommendation
My husband just experienced this! He finally weaned off of fast and junk food, he has learned to love veggies. Well, last week he treated himself to a burger and was highly disappointed. 😂He said that the mushrooms had a better taste than the "beef pattie".
Strawberries and tomatoes taste like nothing nowadays! 😨
and this is why every one of us that has a patch of lawn should be learning to grow what we can!
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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.
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Watching those reports makes me angry and sad, I want to nothing but vomit about the state of our planet.
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I knew it! I knew food wasn't as nutritious as it used to be. I can feel it after I eat and I still don't get energy.
I tell friends this too. I grow veggies on my terrace and I tell them, there is a difference in taste. I am growing many tomatoes. But I'm also growing some hydroponically for some fresh tomatoes for salads.
Agree. I said the same thing a number of years ago to some friends I workout with. We were calculating our macros and I once said that we don't even know how accurate that nutritional data is for these foods when we do our meal plans!
Me!!
That's not at all how this works. How much energy you get is almost exclusively a function of carb intake, and all the foods have the same nutritional values they always had... except with more useful additions of trace elements and such. You don't get energy because you're either sick, eating the wrong things, or because you're neglecting your health and don't even go for a daily walk - which really is the very bare minimum for "healthy" individuals.
Vitamins missing, which is a huge if and much more nuanced than portrayed here, is not going to make you "not get energy," that's decidedly ignorant of how the freaking Krebs cycle and his many, convoluted friends work.
@@minhuang8848 not true. food are definitely not the same nutritionally. while all those things you listed does play a role, it still doesn't change that fact.
The problem with all commercial farmers is that their produce is sold by weight, not by quality, taste, or nutrition.
The french ministry of agriculture research institute (INRA) did a famous study of the nutrient density of organically grown product (plant grown in real poo poo) vs chemically grown products (haber-bosch german devilry). There was a storm at the end of the growing seasons and it showed that sudden mineralization of the manure created vegetable with way more nitrate content than the limits. Appart from than the products were ten to a hundred time richer in for example vitamin C and other key micronutrients than the chemically grown.
So half of the results were never published and censored, only the part were the nitrate value were 'bad' were shown. They (the french parisian ZOG) had the researchers forced to say that chemically grown was better than organics.
To this day, the second part of this study is under strict censorship.They still have ALL the ag school teachers cite the truncated study and say that organic is bad because of this nitrate anomaly.
How do you know about it ? Is there a link to read it ?
sharing knowledge is dangerous@@TheEmbrio
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.
Also the corporate farm soil is totally depleted. You cannot grow healthy food without either animals in the mix or else to give the soil long breaks. Instead they blast as much food as possible in the tiniest area possible or even grow it in plastic mulch.
Even our land that was neglected for many years before we purchased here in Portugal produces better produce than you can get in the stores in Canada. We love the fresh delicious fruits and vegetables here! ❤
I live in Canada. When I travel I find the fruit and vegetables has a much more robust flavour. Especially fruit, in Canada - is tasteless. Very sad.
@@zaineypie5834::: The big secret, is the use of irradiation on all food that crosses any border, destroying the energy of the food so much, that even bugs & mold won’t touch it.
Roma tomatoes aren't bad tasting. Regular ones aren't flavorful.
This is why I keep adding more and more every year to my garden. My kids don't want store bought vegetables and fruit. 😬
Good for you!
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.
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
Great idea, but with some plants like tomatoes you can't take seeds from just any fruit on the bush and expect the seeds will give you exact same bush, - I'm not an expert, but saw how proes do that, and they claim it matters a lot what vine it comes from, which fruit on the vine, how it represents the sort/variety and so on, other words, seed selection may sometimes be a challenging task and it is better to have a trustworthy source to get the variety you want
That's interesting. Is it in the US? I don't think we have any seed banks in Poland, but many people here sell their seeds or plants online for pennies to cover shipping costs.
@@yes12337 I can't say much for other places, but where I live, the local library has started their own "Seed Sharing" program that is a seed bank, but on a much smaller level and more for flowers. I hope to add many more veggie seeds to this over the years.
Edit to add most important part: I live in midwest United States.
@@mikep584 Correct, hybrid seeds will not produce the same type. Only heirloom seeds that aren't from cross pollinated/cross bred hybrid plants will produce identical plants same as the parent.
🎉We must make mmm be careful to keep hybrid plant seeds out of the seed banks.
I knew it! I really just started cooking last year after finding out about one food sensitivity and allergies after another. I would cook with fresh herbs and garlic and couldnt even taste it in the food no matter how much of it I put in. I would go to walmart to get fruit and the fruit would taste like water! Now I dont mind buying organic to get the taste that I want. Since I can't eat out due to food sensitivitys/allergies my cooking has gotten amazing and I dont crave highly processed foods no more.
@jerricaher I grew up in household that used to cook from scratch nearly everything without ever consulting a written down recepie, except for baking, plus I lived abroad and expanded a lot my cooking repertory and perfected my technics over the years, got organized super efficiently that I'm so fast in doing things and finding the right order that in no time I can throw down lunch, dinner and even something for the next day, so now when we rarely go eating out we (even the kids) almost never really feel fully sattisfied, becouse our taste buds tell us we could have had the same thing at home that tastes better and costs a fraction of what we paid for it. 😂 Keep up the good work and it's totaly worth it and super saddisfactory! Even now, that prices had went up, staples are still pretty affordable and if you know how to clean and eviscerate your fish or cut your meat and poultry, you can get 'em at least at 1/3 of price they cost abd sometimes even less! Look at the cost of chicken breasts or thighs and compare it to a whole chicke that you carve yourself in 10 minutes! But once they had been minimaly processed like cutting them up, their value doubles or triples! Ridiculous...😂
@@daniby9894 and the chickens in the store have less nutrition in them than the ones I raise. Two wings fill me up with my chickens, but the wings from the store require 5 or more to get the same calories/protein/fats. The wings on my chickens are slightly larger bc the bones are bigger and the muscles are stronger, but they aren't twice as big, just twice as nutritious.
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 soil thrist but not for much longer unfortunately.
Very true because these days people want a quick crop, whereas if you have a lot of microbial activity in your soil your plants grow slower and the fruit smaller but it will have a high nutritional value.
not everything what is called " organic" is genuinely organic, there is a lot of agressive marketing in cute - expensive - packaging and profit behind the so called healthy tomatoes...😣
Not a cording to this documentary, the Frenchman's tomatoes who was extracting his own seeds said that he didn't put any fertilizer, yet they came out more nutritious than the store bought ones.
@@jean-chritophedesjarlais8435it is true growing food in poor soil causes diseases.
This documentary is really eye-opening and brave. It focuses mainly on the hybridization and over-commercialization of veggies and seeds in order to maximize profitability and prolong shelf-life, as a major reason for nutrient loss. As we all know, there's another equally important factor (if not more important), which is the chemical approach to cultivation. Chemical based cultivation results in veggies with a very narrow and deficient nutrient profile, because all the necessary natural and organic procedures and interactions between the plants and soil have been bypassed, leaving a final product that may look good, shiny and uniform on the outside (profitable too), but is essentially empty inside. Another byproduct is sterile, lifeless soils and fields requiring more and more chemical inputs to sustain crops.
You forgot hydroponics. Growing veggies in water was NOT what God intended.
A wonderful analysis of the facts thank you
A wonderful analysis of the facts thank you
And you combine low nutritional value food with people that are over medicating and have very poor gut biomes along with over consumption of junk food and basically the human body starts to fail , all diseases are out of control and at unprecedented levels , western life expectancy is going backwards and was never really record level in the first place , it’s not surprising so many died from the recent man made pandemic , most peoples immune systems are extremely compromised as they a deficient in so many nutrients , not to mention obese and unfit - non of it is rocket science , just learn what nature intended for the body and how it evolved , all those pushing some kind of plastic plant based man made diet need to be held accountable for their deception , just like those who pushed the toxic vaccines and all other drugs - it’s all about the dollars and seldom about real health, we don’t have health care , we have a sick care business !
Pretty much what we have done to children in education
The tomato was the fruit that made me suspicious of our food industry. No taste, but always upset my stomach unless I grew them. I got very sick, went vegan as an anti inflammatory diet and started finding the research on pesticides in our food and the diseases that it causes. Keep up the fight people, grow as much of your own food as humanity possible. Resist, fight back!
In my town a vegan, a good family man, was diagnosed with stomach cancer. He was told that it was the most painful cancer. He went in to a field near his home and....his funeral was a couple days later. It was possibly a field that was sprayed with the exact herbicides that gave him the cancer. The community we live in has a lot of vegans. Those that didn't die of stomach or colon cancer died of dementia.
meats are deadly
@@Jonas_Santos20 in a lot of ways they certainly are. Mostly because they are pumping the animals full of the same things they are us....glyphosates and antibiotics. Our food industry has some horrible practices.
@@crystalwebb5725 i developed psoriatic arthritis and my dad died due to heart attack because of the said diet
Going through customs they don't allow any fruits or seeds etc.. They say it's to protect biosecurity but I think it's more about protecting these companies profits and monopolies..
You make a good point, they definitely do want to limit our personal access to biodiverse crops, but I think that regulating the movement of plants was created in response to the mass influx of invasive species that have been costing us hundreds of billions of $$, and they often come in through unsterilized/unregulated plant materials/seeds.
No, it’s to stop the spread of invasive species of insects/micro organisms that have the potential to completely destroy local ecosystems. Some guy bringing fruits in his suitcase is not going to affect the billion dollar monopolies of these companies.
Invasive species are definitely a thing. Innocent things in one area can wreck havoc in another.
It's biosecurity
Look up the history of how the Wevill bug damaged the south east in the 1920s or 30s. The restaurant chain Bowl Wevil is named after it. Also saw in a documentary on airport security and on one of the seized fruits from the carribean tourists there was a live worm squirming around.
Here in Canada in the 70s we ate fruit that was sun ripened from FLA and Southern Ont , Oranges the size of softballs and big juicy flavorful peaches and Grapefruit , Now we eat small hard dry crappy ones from South Africa ripened with a nitrogen pump in a sea can . What happened ? Where did ir all go ?
And now even a new York apple in New York has no fragrance and taste like cardboard and we are exporting the good apples and importing apples from south America. How insane
Funny enough fruits grown in south Africa naturally still taste good. M parents have many fruit trees and I notice difference in taste with ones in UK
I once bought a big grapefruit that was the size of half a volleyball, it was 3 inches of rind. That was the novelty of it.
The concentration of seed ownership in the hands of a few multinational corporations is concerning, as it raises questions about accessibility, sustainability, and ethical practices in agriculture. We need to rethink our priorities and support initiatives that prioritize both the health of our food and the welfare of the people producing it.
Honestly, the seeds those corporations own aren't worth having. They can keep them, but at same time they definitely need to stop feeding the less nutritious produce which comes from those seeds to the public. Meanwhile, people can start growing their own heirloom seeds and seed saving whether in containers on a balcony or in a backyard garden if that is all they can manage ... healthier at least.
Soil depletion also has a very big influence.
Man that interveiw with Lemigrain was awesome, big props to the journalists who worked on this!
I don't know when this film was made, but heads are going to roll in the Karnataka quarters after that interview
I have never regretted moving from the city and relocating to a rural area, growing all of my produce has been a most sacred gift. Saving my own Heirloom Seed is a must, the produce from these seeds are delicious and very nutritious. 49:59
I wish that too for myself!
@@FlatStella1
At one time I lived in the city, my neighbor was this very healthy senior citizen, he is extremely fit and healthy.
I am young enough to be his grandson but I became his friend. The homes were on small lots,one day I observed my friend planting a garden that took over the entire back yard as it was tiny, he approached me and said “When I was 65 years old, I wanted to move back to the country, everyone said I was too old and I listened to them, now I am 90 years old and I regret every day that I didn’t follow my dream and move to the country when I was 65 years old. “
I looked him in his eyes as he told me this, I was moved in such a way that I began to research and make a plan.
Hopefully you can do the same.
49 mins of excellent journalism, followed by 1 minute of upbeat music and a message of “don’t worry, the 0.1% of good will win over the 99.9% that is evil”
😆so true on the music! So sad what's happening
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 solution would probably be produce locally and sell locally.
But this can only happen if government enforces regulations and restrictions on these multinational companies controlling seeds globally. Government would need to step in and support small scale farmers to run a profitable business.
@DIDAMI.Experience
But most people don't live in the countryside. lmao
Nobody wants to buy fruits and vegetables near a busy highway/roadside apartment alright.
@@sshovelyjoe Not really, because the seeds commercial organizations own are the ones that aren't healthy to start with due to over hybridization without regard to nutrient density. So let them keep them! Small scale farmers and homesteaders can continue to practice sustainable farming and grow heirlooms, seed save, etc. There just aren't enough of small farmers and homesteaders because massive scale farming has taken over so much land and governments keep pushing people to live in cities.
And some fruit just is not extremely viable in various environments
‘Engineered’ for greater quantity, longer storage, and ease of transport, at the expense of our health.
People seem to be doing fine so far, if left to your own devices you people would starve, it's like getting fed fish and complaining it's not free range river salmon. lmao
The privilege of you whiners.
Meanwhile the "Engineered" (which was the case for thousands of years, no vegetable/fruit is like it was from nature btw)
.... Meanwhile the engineered fruits and vegetables are saving people from starvation.
Go plant your inferior plant seeds in your gardens for that instagram status of "doing good" in the world lmao
Yes, who cares about health and nutrition when more money can be made. PATHETIC!
One of the best traits of tomatoes is that they readily hybridise, so you can see lots of big changes in relatively few generations. Also, F1 offspring is rarely sterile so pretty much any tomato you get your hands on, from a grocery store or otherwise, can be grown again from its seeds (F2 stability notwithstanding). However, tomato seed companies are working on direct gene editing in order to produce new sterile F1 varieties - and that’s mostly a result of greed.
Thanks! At sixty-two, I'm just getting started on my regenerative farming journey. My focus up till now has been soil health, but this video has inspired me to expand the scope of my studies.
in the doku they compared just one old variety.. the taste was reportedly a fair bit better.. but in my experience some old strains are muuuuuuuuuuuuuch better tasting. i ate one an old bean strain, just in bouillon, nothing else, and it was no oke the best meal i ever ate, or just fighting for first rank with a 5 star menue i once ate.. No, i think its first rank.. nothing compares.. (what i know too, not every old strain is better in taste.. but some are, like said..
i had the same experinence with wild ethiopian coffe.. old strain, unbeleavable flavour..
You can apply similar to spring onions for example. Utterly tasteless. They used to make your nose tingle with a high taste, bit like mustard. It's likely that most industrially produced fruit and vegetables have halved their nutrients. This must impact social health.
They still do if you grow them yourself. There are many old varieties. Also if possible buy it from your organic grower. Or try growing a few green onions in a pot, if you have no yard. The taste is amazing.
Makes me wonder if it was the acid rain supplementing them; Alliums are mild in taste in sulphur deficient soils.
Right! I do like to pick wild onions here in Texas tho!
Organic. I buy some purple ones from local store and they make my husband and I cry. My nose always tingles when I smell them.
@@seadragon1456 you have to be careful even with organic too, stores or farmers can label their produce organic when it isn't. Ask where their farm is, ask about their product, and if they can't give you a passionate and quick answer (I.e not delayed), it usually means it's bogus
Such an important documentary and work, thank you. So many children have all sorts of allergies today, I wouldn't be at all surprised if that is related.
I love this. This is exactly why this documentary is bad. Ignorant people simply shouldn't be given this information because they IMMEDIATLY do this sort of garbage right here. Uneducated, uncorrelated, garbage guesswork.
There are THOUSANDS of other likely data points but you go with this one. Fascinating.
@@jagermaestro1 Censor the data because somebody online has an unscientific opinion about the data? Yeah that's _so_ much more progressive?
@@earthenscience Could care less what you consider progressive. This data should have stayed academic and not turned into edutainment for imbeciles.
I'll throw shade on any number of people that want to sling garbage that's right next to antivax and essential oils.
That you can't imagine a happy medium of responsible data use is not my concern. No harm in leaving this in a form your average halfwits would fall asleep reading.
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@@jagermaestro1 I find it weird you would discount GMO foods as the cause. Its not like we know EXACTLY why everyone has allergies now. The allergy question has been studied, but only a couple of suspects have been interrogated. One factor is our cleanliness. Cleanliness that has been around for over 100 years. Another could be GMO foods. A wild guess, a shot in the dark, is NOT ignorant. And.... it follows.
In germany we have still seed-markets were u can exchange old seeds ,so there doesn't get lost
And what's your birth rate?
@@user-qb6fq5xr6b seeds and seedlings tomatoes and other vegetables..you know the things to eat . 💀💀💀. Dude what's wrong with you 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 and by the way if you want to see german birth rates Google it I am not your secretary 🙄
The most nutrient dense foods in nature tend to also be the smallest. Think berries, seeds, nuts, animal organs, fish etc
"The nutrients in the tomato are still a small player in the market". Great times we're living
I caught that too.
It should be reversed.. no matter how it looks as long as the taste is great. Unbelievable sad our daily reality😪
Its not just this reason. Read the book 'Fateful Harvest' which explains how its legal to dump toxic poisons into 'fertilizers'. A practice that still exists today. Its a hidden little known fact.
While living and studying in Canada for a few years, I was shocked and dismayed at how flavorless some of the fruits and vegetables are there. Chiquita and dole sticker bananas that are totally flavorless. Pineapples that look amazing but are completely bland.
The avocados are tiny watery horrible looking things from Mexico. Its like Mexico worst avocados 😅 Everything just seems to be from plantations by big corporations.
"Fresh food" in general in Canada looks good but tastes bland at best, terrible frequently, and I believe it has very little nutrition.
So sad that they won't be able to ever change this. They have almost totally eliminated small farmers from their food supply chain. Those that would just have a few acres of land, grow a variety of vegetables and fruits and keep a few cows and such. Those are the only people who can supply the community with healthy food.
I'm from the west coast of canada and I can say delicious seasonal fruit is easily accessible if you are willing to go to a farm and get it. Here on vancouver island I buy most of my produce, meat, eggs and dairy from local farmers. If you are living in a city your options are far more limited. Of course we don't grow things like pineapple and avocados though.
I live on the east coast of Canada and I agree that much of our produce is terribly bland unless you buy it local and in season. I'm lucky that my parents have a veggie garden and keep my supplied on fresh veg in the summer and fall.
I only buy fruit when it's in season, but even then we can't grow much fruit here unfortunately.
As a Kid I once visited a farm that had the most delicious meaty tomatoes ever... I have never tasted something like that again
Thank you for this excellent documentary. My children could never understand why my homegrown vegetables taste so much nicer than the store bought vegetables. Now I can show them 🥰.
Where do you get the seeds?
How is that possible, given your limited seed choices?
The look on that board members face when she shattered his illusions that the tech for measuring nutritional value is already in the works😂😂😂whooo he didn’t like that at all! People, take back your power, get the heirloom variety seeds, seed save and grow your own whenever you can. And let corporations know by your purchases that you want food that tastes good with nutritional values that are local.
he literally gulped LOL
Whenever I return to India from months long stay with my children in the USA, I am struck by the tastiness and good feeling of vegetabkes and fruit here. We eat simpler in variety and less in quantity, but feel better fed. Though sadly this is fast disappearing here too with bigger more industrial, business kind of farming creeping in fast. The first victims are the great variety of indigenous, wild and forage foods that we eat today.
stop fooling yourself , i come from family of farmers back in india and is now in usa. most of farmers uses hybrid variety in india too
you should not expect farmers to sell old age none hybrid variety at even just 100 rs kg as yield is so low. you eat hybrid even in india but their taste feels better for us because of our genetics and indian palate which make us like any thing indian more in comparision to other , specially if it has long history in indian culture
If you had read my response properly, you would have seen that I am saying exactly what you are saying.
Soil gets washed out it's too expensive for big corporations to replenish it the best soil takes about 3 years to mature
I watched a documentary about the evolution of apples.
In the early 20th century there were a little over 7,000 varieties of apples in U.S. and from then until now we lost over 6,000 of them, all unique genetically (Heritage apples were at 11,000 varieties).
Supposedly the red delicious has no nutritional value whatsoever because of its perfection.
Genetic diversity is paramount in order for apples to adapt to changes in environment.
I remember reading in the 1990s that you have to eat 5 apples to get the nutritional value of 1 apple that my grandmother used to eat. So now I know why.
@@lucakat9262 Wow! I know the more a plant is hybridized it does not live as long either. Growing up we had an orchard with all heirloom apple trees. Some were so tart your tongue would curl but they made the best pies. None were dry either. They never browned after slicing like the hybrids do!
Ugh...i worked at a specialty grocery store that sold heirloom apples every apple season. I would buy a couple every October just to taste them. They were so amazing. Sweet and tart...best apples I had ever tasted.. Wow.
Apples are clones, each seed from each apple is a completely different kind. So if the variety is truly the same any difference in nutritional value will be because of growing conditions.
@@oldmooneye4670 That's why in order to get the same tree they need to be grafted, which we did to preserve the old timers.
Good soil is what affects nutritional value the most of any plant. Good soil equals better health & disease and pest resistance and better tolerance to climate changes with lots of nutrition.
I make catsup from my own home grown heirloom tomatoes and apple cider vinegar made from the apples I grow and sell it in recycled beer bottles at the local farmers market
I can't smell my fruits and veggies anymore. Smell, taste and now nutrients? Its a dieing world.
Exactly. I am so glad I am not the only one who feels this. I walk through the aisles of markets and supermarkets and I sense the chemicals or just sense the fruit and vegs- in the happiest of cases, they are empty. There is nothing special about my sensing- animals in the wild sense what’s good or bad for them ; humans have lost that. It is terrible. 🙁
Great documentary. Unfortunately this has been happening increasingly since the 1930s. Corporations only want quick high profits, not a quality product. Corporate chemical farming is only good for the corporation's bottom line, not the soil or the food or the workers or even their contracted farmers whom they refuse to pay a good price to. Whenever possible raise your own food or buy naturally- raised food from your local community. Your health and your taste buds will thank you!
Starting to feel like we are really living in the era of 'if you don't use it, you loose it'. A struggle to survive and a struggle to thrive seems to be hand in hand!
hands off our farmers...in the name of nature and healthy humanity....
Im 40 and oen a small farm. To preserve my soil ive gone above and beyond. First i only grow heirloom and keep my own seeds. Second i elevated my entire growing zone so runoff cannot affect it. Next every year i add organic material to my beds and cover during winter. Lastly i built a large pond and the excavated soil was used in a berm. Atop the berm is a 50x8 bog filter to capture fish emulsion. That fish emulsion fertilizer is piped directly to my grow beds and absorbed via the soil. A big part to this mystery is preserving the bacteria in our soil which is reflected in our gut biome. Dead soil makes dead people
This is what happens when you spray chemicals into the air to try to manipulate weather you strip the soil of nutrients adding sulfur and aluminum instead
yep ... however, they ll turn it around and blame it on something opposite
Another thing no one mentions is that a lot of aluminum is found on the brains of Alzheimers patients when they are dead. They have done autopsies on these patients and found that to be true. So over time, people are getting aluminum on their brains from a variety of different stuff. For example, we use a lot of aluminum in cans and to cook with.
Soil gets washed out you have to reply it and that's expensive for corporations
I feel sorry for today's modern children who don't have the privilege of being given reasonable responsibilities and taught to work in their childhood. We can see what a handicap it is for them later in life.
Producers respond to demand. If the consumers demand long shelf life over nutrition, then that's what producers provide. If you want higher nutrition, demand it, and pay for it.
Fruits have also increased their sugar content dramatically. They are more like candy now and should be treated as treats, not a staple in the diet.
I stopped eating fruit because all flavor is gone, and most are dryer, less juice.
*ANYBODY HAD TO CLEAN UP LEAVES THIS YEAR?*
I didn't.
*All trees covered with moss and dying!*
*FRUIT TREES ARE NOT PRODUCING HEALTHY FRUITS AS IN THE PAST!*
Various Mutations, Stunted Growth, Trees Not Shedding Leaves, leaves Looks To Have Cancers.
I've never heard of so many trees falling during stoms in my life.
I've known this for some years now but what are we supposed to do? buy organic that costs an arm and a leg? I can't and refuse to do that. We need better farming practices, we shouldn't have to choose the more expensive options.
buying directly from farmers who know what they're doing is cheaper than buying from fancy organic markets or shops
Quality comes with a price.
The share of food in budget has shrinked a lot in the last decades.
Maybe time to reconsider our priorities. I have less money for hobbies and use an old phone, but i get tatsy organic food everyday...
You have to invest in what you want before the price can be driven down. It’s just the way it works. You have SACRIFICE something to GET something. If you can buy organic, you should.
Learn to grow own even if it just one or two particular things. Look into container gardening if live in city and have no lawn, community garden, farmer's markets, or at least grow some fresh herbs in kitchen. Every little bit one can do to be even a little bit more self-reliant ... without relying on big corporations and government .... the better and healthier.
'it does not need taste' (or nutrition, or vitamins, or minerals) - but as long as it is profitable, thats all that matters.
Go to your local farmers market if you don’t have the time/skill to have a garden!!! The quality and taste is unparalleled compared to store bought.
It's absolutely true in the U.K that tomatoes from Israel, and other far distances, taste of water and not much else. Whereas, loclly grown traditional and organic tomatoes still ooze delicious tomato juice and taste fantastic. I know as the tomato is my favorite fruit. I hate these modern tasteless varieties and try my best to avoid them.
Tomato is best fruit!
tomatos are vegetables ........
@@taaskeprinsSure they are idiot. Did you even google your assumption or are you one or is the Dunning Kreuger running that deeply in your veins?
This is very interesting. I grow veggies in my garden every summer and now I will make sure that the seeds I buy are not hybrids. Of course I want my veggies to have as much nutrients as they can.
Feed the soil dead animals if you can.
@@veniqe I make compost from the household food waste and there is at least some meat in there that will hopefully do some good 😌
@@veniqeI suggest blood n bone 😂 more convenient
animals are fed even worse than humans so I'm unsure how much they add to soil.@@veniqe
@@sandybayes Oh, I agree their diets are terrible. But somehow their flesh, bones, and blood still give us nutrition so the same will definitely apply to the soil.
Well that was a very different doc than I expected. I'd read a few articles that blamed soil degradation for the vitamin loss and I'd love to see different varieties, different growing conditions, soils, fertilisers etc. and really get to the bottom of this. Great vid. Thank you. Maybe Elon Musk directing the war in Ukraine, will wake some up to the dangers of the concentration of incredible power in the hands of a very few unelected corporations.
BTW- Even if their new tomato prevented every bit of the '40%' waste, you would still need 50% more tomatoes, to make up for the nutrient depletion.
This reminds me of a lecture from 45+ yrs ago, called "Dead Dr's Don't Lie". It basically said that our soil is depleted with every planting and harvest...
Yes, which is why it needs to be allowed to lay fallow while being sustainably re-nourished/recharged and another field used instead ... and why crops must be rotated so different types of plants are grown ... even in a small garden setting ... to offset certain depletions that occur (some plants deplete; some add) as well as to prevent spread of plant diseases.
that is why i want to grow what i can in a backyard
Spoke with a shopper, at grocery store just a few days ago...about this very thing....fruits and tomatoes...I have quit eating fruit, unless from a fruit stand or FB, private sellers...and no tomatoes unless I grow them of fruit stand that grows them...during the summer glut, I dry my heirloom tomatoes to the consistency of fruit roll-ups. This year my nephew freeze dried a few for me...can't wait to try them on a hamburger, this winter.
Store tomatoes are a war crime.
I have been reading about this since late 60's early 70's. I tested for flavor starting in the early 70's. The best tomatoes came from organic seed companys offering old tomato varitiies , planted then in enriched organic soils. The difference is astounding. It has gotten to point that most nursery starting plants are garbage. We need back yard or pot grown as much as possible. And a worm bed in every house especially if you cant have chickens etc..both fed with organic foods...
I have soldier fly bins. I also have chickens. They LOVE the soldier fly larvae.
Crazy they pay 115 for seeds and turn around and sell it for 65k. Sound fair.... NOT!
I am sure it doesn't take much dry, bag, and ship seeds to vegetable farmers.
This is really happening please don't dox any involved.
Soil has a lot to do with flavor and nutrients BTW
We’ve had a business model over 40 yrs where higher quarterly profits legally come above all else including health, safety, quality or innovation. It’s coming to a head and no longer working (except for the tiny percentage of those profiting).
Growth for the sake of growth, the idealogy of a cancer cell
I save my own plant seeds. Done it since 1975. My tomatoes are full of flavour, plus stronger and better plants with excellent pest and disease resistance. The way people grow now for profits, made poor food. 😊
👍 smart
Producing seeds for 120 euros per Kg and selling them for 60 000 euros per Kg to farmers. That is not profit, its crime
Every year I take some seeds out of a tomato and grow my own tomatoes on my balkony. I am living in Rotterdam. The tomatoes are always sweet when I pick them ripe. But I can keep them longer then two weeks outside the refrigerater.
This year one of the plants produced yellow tomatoes. I think it was a spontaneously mutation.
I rarely buy tomatoes now because they are tasteless. To my regret the ones that i eat, are the ones i can only grow during summer time. The last good supermarket tomatoes date to the 1990s and they came from Moracco, they didn’t look perfect but they had real taste. I live in France.
There are some heirlooms which can be grown indoors with proper light. Some will grow and produce/fruit all year for up to five years when given the right conditions (such as a greenhouse with temp and humidity control) but tend to be grown annually instead only because in an outdoor garden the fall/winter weather weakens and kills them.
25:45 Price of tomato seeds- just in case you are interested. 400,000 euros per Kg, is roughly 1.35 per seed.
Its not money. They care about food being less healthy infact they'll pay more to insure its less healthy.
And this is why Regenerative Agriculture practices are improving the nutrient value of foods while repairing the water absorption and rebuilding soil.
It would have been nice to mention some of the fruits and vegetables that have *not* lost much of their nutritional value, if there are any
Unlikely to find very much of anything at grocery store that isn't a hybrid or that wasn't bioengineered in a lab. Only 10 percent of the corn grown worldwide hasn't been bioengineered. Popcorn is the one variety not yet bioengineered. There are a very few organic farms that are responsible for growing the 10 percent of non-BE/no-GMO regular corn. Even typical heirlooms (like Roma tomatoes) are hybridized commercially.
Commercial production is number one, pest resistance 2 , drought resistance 3, handling bruise resistance 4, shelf life 5, eye appeal6, productivity 7, cost to produce,8 are some things that are most important to sellers than nutrition for people.
Don't forget about the nutrient depleted soil that we have as well.
Well, most nutrients are there but the soil is lifeless so the plants can’t access the nutrients. And/or the plants are force fed synthetic fertilizers and so don’t use the soil nutrients at all
this should be more shared!
I wonder if the guy in India that wasn't supposed to talk to the people making the documentary but ended up making them lunch and talking to them got fired?
I remember the big ugly red tomatoes in New Jersey, so delicious! I grow my own also and I think that years ago the farmers used animal manure to fertilize the fields, better for the soil and plants. Also farmers would give fields a rest every few years so the soil can recover ! Not anymore, farmers don’t use manure , I had chickens and the manure was great for my plants.
Dieses Video ist außergewöhnlich gut gemacht. Ich bin dir zutiefst dankbar!✌️
An outstanding documentary! Many, many thanks for producing this! The integrity shines through in your work.
I already knew about the government conspiring with seed companies to grant them a monopoly of seeds. With such a monopoly the incentive encouraged by government is to make as much money as possible. I am not sure what can be done as government is complicit.
Tomatoes from our garden looked perfect for over 3 weeks and without refrigerator. Nothing better than fruits and vegetables grown in the same way as our ancestors did.
One of the best documentaries I’ve watched so far
This was so informative. I listen to a lot of videos about food/agriculture science, but this video was new knowledge for me.
The situation is even worse when you look at the distribution side of the fruit once grown. Because the skin has been made so tough, the fruit is handled rough, and it is chilled to slow down the rot, though these are summer fruits and die below 10C! Thus all the supermarket labelling tells you to keep them in the fridge because they know they are dead and will rot as soon as they warm up! Consequently, you have deliberately grown a low nutrient, low flavour, fruit, and picked it before ripe, and killed it to make sure it never gets ripe, so nobody gets to taste what real fruit and veg is meant to taste like, so they stop eating it and it disapears from the store shelves! I try to keep fruit and veg until it is ripe. This can take as much as two months after the best before date, but I may get only one, or none to eat, depending on how close to the chiller the particular trays happened to be, and how badly they were pressed together and bruised. It makes me weep, the way we steal water from desert countries, to transport in fruit, just to throw away when it warms up and rots in the fruit bowl. Spoils the fruit bowl too. They even freeze cabbages to death, so they won't grow on in water! And if you think tomato varieties are disappearing, just try finding a plum and getting it ripe!
Incidentally, you can usually quite easily tell a tasteless fruit: if it's shiny and brightly coloured: it's rubbish! Tomato flavour is in the rough speckles in the skin. I can spot a good one instantly. Always eat fruit that is dull and wrinkly, and you won't go far wrong. Shiny means still expanding under pressure, and, hence, not ripe. Especially true of peppers, pommegranates, persimmons, berries of all kinds. Expect to have to wait months to get berry fruits ripe.
It should be noted that hybridization by itself is not the culprit...heirloom tomato breeders also breed hybrids for flavor improvement. I am currently growing a hybrid between the Cherokee Purple and the Carbon tomatoes, both highly valued for their flavor. It is super productive with hybrid vigor and the taste is fabulous.
what you will probably get is 3/4 purple cherokee and 1/4 something else..
not sure.. just guessing but my believe is that carbon and purple cherokee already share simillar background..
Probably is better to just dry farm and thus increase taste.. i do this.. i never water and gardening in heavy soil with large clay content which is high in nutrients.. select for best producing and tasting tomatoes within this dry farming way
@@antondavidoff150 Perhaps we as people should start also planting a few seeds from the smaller fruits too just to have more diversity in future genetics which the plants would prefer rather than inbreeding all the time.
Yes I think the video points out that the big companies are hybridizing for things like long shelf life, stability for transportation, etc, whereas most people and individual famers are trying hybridization for taste which seems to indicate higher nutrient value.
@@horizon319 Agreed - plus, the factory-style hybrids are not open pollinated.
Yeah it s not a trial against hybridation. It s kist pointing that big companies are focusing mostly shelflife and yield rather than nutritionnal qualities.
Problem is how much power they heve on lawmakers to even forbid more traditionnal seeds to just be sold...
Ever since size was prioritised they have lost flavour and nutrients !
What a dystopian time. Glad I will likely die before the repercussions truly destroy our world
same!!!! i do not want to see it
You're young, it's likely that you'll live to see it.
@@MargaritaMagdalenawith the coming conflict it's literally a coin toss. I feel like half the world is going to die in this one.
I want to be there to see it happen and I want to be around when we can finally build a world worth living in
@@MargaritaMagdalena I'm ancient
Wow, this documentary was amazingly produced and very enlightening. As a homegrower, I've been trying to find the best way to get nutrients to my family and, hopefully, in the process avoid Monsanto and other huge monopolies. It feels almost impossible in America when you don't have a huge amount of funds.
I wonder if grafting high yield greens onto high nutrient rootstock can help balance the two seemingly most important characteristics. I also wonder how much soil micro biome impacts nutrient content substantially. I would imagine highly worked land has a poor micro biome.
Nobody likes what they did to tomatoes !! 😡😡😡