Organic Food

Organic Food

How popular is this product?

By Takahiro Hashiguchi

& Pascual Retamero

Sub-headings

* What is "Organic Food"?

* Where are these products situated and how are they promoted in the supermarkets?

* How does the price of these goods compare with non-organic food items?

* What information is given on the label of these products?

* How many people actually buy these products?

* What is your opinion on these products

What is Organic Food?

Definition

Organic Food is the agricultural produce that farmers make on the country's regulation and without agricultural chemicals and fertilizer .

Organic Food is very safety for human body, and contains much more vitamins, calcium, iron than non-organic one.

Moreover, organic food's taste and smell are more rich than that one. For these reasons, the popularity of organic food is developing. But when making it, it costs much to protect from harmful insect.

Organic food has both a popular meaning, and, in some countries, a legal definition.

In everyday conversation, it usually refers to all "naturally produced" foods, or the product of organic farming. As a legal term, it means certified organic. The distinction is important, as the two definitions can represent quite different products.

Types of organic food

Organic food, like food in general, can be grouped into two categories, fresh and processed, based on production methods, availability and consumer perception.

Fresh food is seasonal and highly perishable.

Fresh produce -- vegetables and fruits -- is the most available type of organic food, and closely associated with organic farming. It is often purchased directly from the growers, at farmers' markets, from on-farm stands, through specialty food stores, and through community-supported agriculture (CSA) projects.

Unprocessed animal products -- organic meat, eggs, dairy -- are less common. Prices are significantly higher than for conventional food, and availability is lower. They are still premium priced items.

To qualify as "organic", the standards for fresh food are similar to those of organic farming:

* produced without synthetic chemicals (eg: fertilizers, pesticides, antibiotics, hormones)

* free of genetically modified organisms

* (often, but not necessarily) locally grown

Processed food accounts for most of the items in a supermarket. Little of it is organic, and organic prices are often high, however, organic processed products are now primarily purchased from supermarkets. The majority of processed organics comes from large food conglomerates, as producing and marketing products like frozen entress and other convenience foods is beyond the scope of the original small organic producers.

For processed organic food, the general definition is:

* contains only (or at least a certain specified percentage of) organic ingredients

* contains no artificial food additives

processed without artificial methods, materials and conditions (eg: no chemical ripening, no food irradiation)

10 Top Reasons to Go Organic

Organic produce is not covered in a cocktail of poisonous chemicals. The average conventionally-grown apple has 20-30 artificial poisons on its skin, even after rinsing. Trust your instincts, and go organic!

1. Fresh organic produce contains on average 50% more vitamins, minerals, enzymes and other micro-nutrients than intensively farmed produce. Science says that it's good for you.

2. Going organic is the only practical way to avoid eating genetically modified (GM) food. And by buying organic food, you are registering your mistrust of GMO's and doing your bit to protest against them.

3. If you eat dairy or meat products, going organic has never been more essential to safeguard you and your family's health. Intensively-reared dairy cows and farm animals are fed a dangerous cocktail of anti-biotics, hormones, anti-parasite drugs and many other medicines on a daily basis, whether they have an illness or not. These drugs are passed directly onto the consumers of their dairy produce or meat., which must be a contributing factor to meat-related diseases like coronaries and high blood pressure.

4. About 99% of non-organic farm animals in the UK are now fed GM soya. And there has never been a reported case of BSE in organic cattle in the UK. Common sense says that organic is safe food.

5. Organic produce simply tastes so much better. Fruit and vegetables full of juice and flavour, and so many different varieties to try! There are about 100 different kinds of organic potatoes in production in the UK, and that's just potatoes!

6. Organic farms support and nurture our beautiful and diverse wildlife. Over the last thirty years, intensive farming in the UK has led to dramatic erosion of the soil, a fall of up to 70% of wild birds in some areas, the destruction of ancient hedgerows, and the near extinction of some of the most beautiful species of butterflies, frogs, grass-snakes and wild mammals.

7. Organic food is not really more expensive than intensively farmed foods, as we pay for conventional foods through our taxes. We spend billion