In a recent conversation, I was disagreeing with someone about the quality of organic product you can find at many health food stores, and increasingly, at normal grocery stores.

Are these products really that much better? In a nutshell, yes. For one, toxic pesticide residue is generally not going to be found on organic produce. Secondly, there has been no genetic modification to the fruit as well -- ever wonder why those 'grocery store' strawberries or oranges are so friggin' large? No thanks. And, I won't even tough the irradiation that most conventional fruits and vegetables go through.

But the most important is nutrient content. It's hard to believe that the same millions of oranges and apples still contain plentiful nutrients from the soil they are grown in when that soil was used up long ago. Visit a fruit farm or volume vegetable farm and ask for a soil sample from the field. You'll be amazed at what is in there (and actually, what is not).