The invisible force making food less nutritious | "The diets we eat today have less nutritional density than what our grandparents ate - even if we eat exactly the same"

Posted by Acrobatic-Lynx-5018@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 78 comments

This issue has been studied for over a decade now - I first heard about it back in 2012.

Published today on The Washington Post, this article covers the decreasing nutritional value of major crops like chickpeas, potatoes, beans etc. As our population continues to grow and modern technology improves yields dramatically - the food itself is increasingly made of "empty" calories.

Of course in the developed world one can just take supplements, and good for them, but hundreds of millions of people do not have that option and will suffer enormously due to deficiencies, possibly fatally. Collapse related because when adding this to the already cancerous industry peddling Ultra Processed Foods - you are looking at a global disaster scenario playing out in real time.