Know What You Are Eating
Seedless Fruits & Vegetables
Have you noticed at your grocery store many fruits and vegetables are now seedless? Grapes, watermelon, cucumbers , lemons and more. Infact, some stores do not offer customers options to pick from seeded or seedless anymore. Everything is simply seedless. You may have heard about the many health benefits of eating seeded produce, opposed to seedless, but if not you can learn a little bit about it here and also work on picking up a new health habit.
You may be wondering, “What’s the big deal; the fruit still has vital nutrients like vitamins, minerals, antioxidants.” And that is true. However, seedless fruit have been altered through a process called parthenocarpy. Parthenocarpy happens when a fruit develops without fertilization, a phenomenon that does occur naturally but not often. In what are called “cultivated” plants (altered plants), parthenocarpy is introduced to plants through manmade hormones and chemicals that are used on seeds, soil and growing plants. Using such hormones causes ovaries of plants to mature without fertilization and produces bigger fruits with longer shelf life. The process has been introduced to all kinds of crops from squash to beans and fruits.
With lacking the ability to reproduce seed and when we, as humans eat a genetically modified piece of fruit or vegetable, we are eating food whose genetics or DNA has been changed. Possibly changing the DNA of the person eating it. There are about 800 incidents of DNA damage in a humans body per hour, which is about 19,000 hits to our DNA every day. By eating seedless produce and not natural/organic, you are possibly exposing yourself to more DNA damage. This damage can cause mutations and help give rise to chronic diseases and other diseases/disorders while also somehow giving you the vital nutrients needed to be healthy.
We know that consuming anything artificially enhanced can be 1 of many underlying causes to the increased heath problems the world has been seeing. Could Americas demand for seedless produce actually not be a demand, but an occurrence uncontrollable now due to the usage of unsafe products on plants?
When fruits and vegetables grow as nature intended, they all have seeds. If a fruit or vegetable does not have any seeds, it has most likely been tampered with by changing the genetic structure using. Organic fruits and vegetables with seeds cannot be raised using genetic modification, which is why we find it important to choose organic, if possible. Seeds can sometimes be of an inconvenience, but they are packed with fiber and extremely nutritious so we should want them in our produce. Get your Bodi Buzzin the right way with seeded produce!
Organic foods have been found to have more beneficial nutrients than conventionally-grown foods due to no use of growth hormones and pesticides.
A diet high in fruits and vegetables help protect your DNA from damages while also boosting DNA repair.
