Industry Scandal: The Loss Of Nutrients | Full Documentaries

Industry Scandal: The Loss Of Nutrients - Sixty years of producing standardized fruit and vegetables and creating industrial hybrids have had a dramatic impact on their nutritional content. Industry Scandal: The Loss Of Nutrients (2019) Director: Linda Bendali Genre: Documentary Country: France Language: English Also Known As: Cash Investigations: Seeds of Profit Synopsis: Sixty years of producing standardized fruit and vegetables and creating industrial hybrids have had a dramatic impact on their nutritional content. In the past 50 years, vegetables have lost 27% of their vitamin C and nearly half of their iron. Take the tomato. Through multiple hybridizations, scientists are constantly producing redder, smoother, firmer fruit. But in the process, it has lost a quarter of its calcium and more than half of its vitamins. The seeds that produce the fruits and vegetables we consume are now the property of a handful of multinationals, like Bayer, and Dow-Dupont, who own them