You Are WHAT You Eat

[Eddie]

Well, I guess it all depends on which paradigm one chooses to accept. Personally, I trust the natural/alternative/holistic community waaaaaaaaay more than the mainstream medical community. No question.

I do too, and I eat holistically myself. That's not the point.

Plants have normal ranges of contents for various elements in their cells. If the content of a certain nutrient falls below a certain point, the plant will not be able to function, as normal cell growth and metabolism will be arrested. The content cannot go above a certain point, because of genetic limitation within the plant. These ranges of nutrient contents are usually within a few percentage points; ranges for sugars are somewhat higher.

To claim that modern spinach has 1/75th the iron content of spinach grown 63 years ago strikes me as not credible; spinach that is severely iron deficient will appear chlorotic (as will other vegetation), and I have never seen chlorotic spinach in the market. It would not be salable.