what do they do to non organic vegetables to stop them going off so quickly? i bought 2 cucumbers 1 was organic and the other was not. the organic one went limp in a couple f days but the other one is a week old and it is still s firm as the day i bought it. do non organic foods contain the same level of nutrition?

thx sid

problem is only one example of each, and you don't know when each was picked. But some veg is irradiated, and keeps for much longer. I had some baby tomatoes that just shrank to the size of a large pea, without a sign of mold.

AFAIK, there is no difference at all in organic/non-organic foods. The only difference I could detect in any food stuff was eggs.

As I understand it, if you are 'going organic' the two foods to consider first are eggs and milk. This is because it is the battery chicken and dairy cows that are given antibiotics as a prophylactic rather than to treat illness only once it is diagnosed.

Winton

I very rarely buy organic food because claims mean diffrent things from fifferent producers/countries, as far as I know. I do indulge in organic eggs and milk and dairy products, as Winton, most of the time.