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Study concludes there is no evidence that organic foods benefit health
24 May 2010
Researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have concluded that there are not enough studies into the health benefits of organic foods as opposed to their conventional counterparts; and that those studies that did exist largely focussed on short term benefits – mainly on levels of antioxidants in the blood – as opposed to long term health benefits. The researchers could only find 12 published studies evaluating the health-benefits of organic food, and most of them had failed to find any difference in nutrient levels between organic and non-organic.
The study, the second carried out by this team of researchers, supports their initial report, published last year, the researchers had combed through 162 articles published in scientific literature over the past 50 years. They found no evidence that organic and conventional foods differ significantly in their nutrient content.
The study was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, online May 12.
