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Re: [compost_tea] Vegetable quality



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From: William Kruidenier

Hi William
You took the words right out of my mouth - I too would like to see the
quality issue answered as you have asked here!
Lloyd Charles
> One thing I would love to see entered into the "giant vegetable"
> discussion vis-a-vis compost tea is vegetable quality. It seems that
> produce quality (vitamin, mineral, sugar = taste, etc.) gets
> forgotten in the discussion. After all, the purpose of food is to
> sustain the human body, and the best produce will do the best job of
> feeding the body what it needs. Therefore, I'm curious on two fronts:
>
> 1. Documentation of the impact of CT on fruit/veg quality
>
> 2. Documentation that bigger fruits/veggies are necessarily a better
> quality than smaller
>
> By "quality" I mean higher vitamin and mineral content. The best
> quick test seems to be Brix readings, but what other documentation is
> available? It seems the organic growing industry harps more on the
> ABSENCE of dangerous substances (chemicals) than the PRESENCE of
> helpful substances (vit/min/sugars). I'm assuming that CT makes
> better veggies which is why I use it. But I wonder how much testing
> has been done to prove it?
>
> William K.
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