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Organic foods richer in minerals and vitamins

Organic farms grow foods that are free of dangerous chemicals and richer in mineral, vitamin and nutrient content. 

Healthy agrarian populations existing before they began to eat processed foods, and other comparative studies, suggest a number of ways that organic farming practices grow food with identifiable health benefits.

Besides being free of, or much lower in, pesticide residue, organic foods grown in improved organic soils have also been found to have fewer nitrates and food additives linked with disease, but higher levels of the minerals calcium, magnesium, iron and copper.

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