Food is not what it was

Many of us eat with no thought of the nutritional value of the stuff we put in our mouth. Of the 13 major nutrients found in fruits and vegetables, six have declined substantially, according to a study by Donald Davis, a biochemist at the University of Texas at Austin. Using data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Davis concludes that recently grown crops have shown decreases of up to 38 percent in protein, calcium, vitamin C, phosphorus, iron and riboflavin when compared with produce from past decades

We need these for our body to function if we are not getting these we will be unwell. This does not include the trace elements we all need. Maybe that is the reason that everything is said to taste like chicken.

What are the reasons for this?

Like any other competitive industry, farmers' attempts to drive up profits have led them to use new techniques to increase production, Davis said. The faster-grown fruits don't have as much time to develop the nutrients. "Farmers get paid by the weight of a crop, not by amount of nutrients," Davis said. He called this the "dilution effect": As fruits and vegetables grown in the United States become larger and more plentiful, they provide fewer vitamins and minerals. "It's a simple inverse relationship: The higher the yield, the lower the nutrients," he said.

Davis said this happens because slower-growing crops have more time to absorb nutrients from both the sun and the soil.

I think that these could be some of the reasons that our society suffers from being overweight and the rise of food intolerance as well as being unhealthy. This just my opinion but there seems to be a lot off studies on this subject. So it goes to show you are what you eat.