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Organic food myths busted: Why you might be wasting money on "healthier" options

Mark Frauenfelder

Aug 26, 2024
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An organic greenhouse eggplant (Katerina Maksymenko/shutterstock.com)
An organic greenhouse eggplant (Katerina Maksymenko/shutterstock.com)

"Any consumers who buy organic food because they believe that it contains more healthful nutrients than conventional food are wasting their money." says Joseph D. Rosen, emeritus professor of food toxicology at Rutgers. This quote appears in a "mythbusting" article about organic foods …

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