The big cover-up: Edible films on organic produce

We all know organic is better when it comes to fruits and vegetables, right? After all, they’re cleaner and purer than produce grown with pesticides, and packaged with preservatives, right? Wrong. I started having doubts when a patient told me that. “Contrary to your advice, I don’t eat organic fruits and vegetables because I don’t believe they are as pure as advertised.”  Knowing how inventive our food industry is, I didn’t argue with him. Instead, I started paying much more attention to how organic fruits and vegetables look. Too good to be true? I went to the store and bought organic apples. I examined them closely. They looked shiny, as if they were polished; their surface reflected the light almost like a mirror. They looked perfect—too perfect. From my childhood, I knew what naturally grown apples should look like. I said to myself, “This isn’t natural!”  I thought they might be genetically modified or something.  But this was not on the label.  When I took them home, they tasted good. And they looked fresh for a long period of time…much, much longer than apples I remember from my childhood. Again I thought,  “There must be something that’s not natural.”  But what was it?  Either these apples were not organic or there was something I was not aware of. I was puzzled. Until recently. A film you don’t want to see… While sifting through the medical literature, I stumbled upon a technology being used called Modified atmospheric...
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