organic fruit...does it really taste better?

Nastasja

decides2dream wrote:

Nastasja wrote:

The problem is that our taste was already changed by industry food. We are not used to the 'original' taste anymore and consider organic food as tasting less good.....

see, what i posted is the exact opposite of what you're saying tho. i am finding, albeit from my limited experience with organics, that the organic produce - well at least the fruit i've had - tastes far BETTER thn the regular stuff i grew up on, accustomed to....

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I know. I personally agree with this, too but I'm just about to read a book about nutrition and there researcher's were looking for a reason why so many people prefer industry stuff and go to McDonalds and Co. I myself don't belong to that group but I was just so impressed / angry by what I have read so far.....

Lauri

decides2dream wrote:

or is it just me?
seriously.


i don't buy organic that often - so pricey!
however, i have bought organic bananas more than a few times now, simply b/c the non-organic looked like shit, too ripe, unerripe, whateva. i also have tried organic raspberries, 2x, simply b/c they were on sale - a great price! and seriously...they all TASTED so much.....BETTER! it was like there was more FLAVOR. is this true, or am i imagining it? just askin'...

I think they do because conventional fruit is grown for appearance, not taste. I mean seriously, what has happened to apples? They're HUGE and RED and SHINY and then you bite into them and you might as well be eating mealy cardboard. Bleck.

Nastasja

Lauri wrote:

decides2dream wrote:

or is it just me?
seriously.




I think they do because conventional fruit is grown for appearance, not taste. I mean seriously, what has happened to apples? They're HUGE and RED and SHINY and then you bite into them and you might as well be eating mealy cardboard. Bleck.

but there is so much food that industry puts chemicals in that enhances taste (whatever that should mean) and sometimes even stuff that makes people addicted to a certain kind of product

dimitrispearljam

nop!! :thumbdown:

decides2dream

Lauri wrote:

decides2dream wrote:

or is it just me?
seriously.


i don't buy organic that often - so pricey!
however, i have bought organic bananas more than a few times now, simply b/c the non-organic looked like shit, too ripe, unerripe, whateva. i also have tried organic raspberries, 2x, simply b/c they were on sale - a great price! and seriously...they all TASTED so much.....BETTER! it was like there was more FLAVOR. is this true, or am i imagining it? just askin'...

I think they do because conventional fruit is grown for appearance, not taste. I mean seriously, what has happened to apples? They're HUGE and RED and SHINY and then you bite into them and you might as well be eating mealy cardboard. Bleck.

i agree with this.
sometimes fruit LOOKS so good, but then when you eat it...major disappointment.
eh, kinda like some people i guess.
all shiny exterior, no substance on the interior.

JaneNY

decides2dream wrote:

Lauri wrote:

I think they do because conventional fruit is grown for appearance, not taste. I mean seriously, what has happened to apples? They're HUGE and RED and SHINY and then you bite into them and you might as well be eating mealy cardboard. Bleck.

i agree with this.
sometimes fruit LOOKS so good, but then when you eat it...major disappointment.
eh, kinda like some people i guess.
all shiny exterior, no substance on the interior.

Agree on both these points - esp. the apples that you mention and esp. red delicious. They suck. And strawberries.

I'm not going to go with a blanket 'yes organics taste better' because I've eaten plenty of non-organic stuff that tasted fine. Also, my motivation for choosing organic when I do is getting less exposure to chemicals in the forms of insecticide,fungicide and the like, as well as fertilizer. To me that is more of an important point than only the taste.

TravisTheSky

Nastasja wrote:

but there is so much food that industry puts chemicals in that enhances taste (whatever that should mean) and sometimes even stuff that makes people addicted to a certain kind of product

Sound like the book you're reading is Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser. That's a great one. The shorter version of it meant for teens is called Chew On This! I read passages from it during a Children's Literature course in college whe I was assigned to cover non-fiction. The professor was rolling her eyes the whole time, sighing, and said, "That's propaganda!" She lowered my grade for the entire course from an A to a B because she disapproved so much. I had to fight for months to restore the A I had earned!

Truth can be dangerous.

decides2dream

JaneNY wrote:

decides2dream wrote:

Lauri wrote:

I think they do because conventional fruit is grown for appearance, not taste. I mean seriously, what has happened to apples? They're HUGE and RED and SHINY and then you bite into them and you might as well be eating mealy cardboard. Bleck.

i agree with this.
sometimes fruit LOOKS so good, but then when you eat it...major disappointment.
eh, kinda like some people i guess.
all shiny exterior, no substance on the interior.

Agree on both these points - esp. the apples that you mention and esp. red delicious. They suck. And strawberries.

I'm not going to go with a blanket 'yes organics taste better' because I've eaten plenty of non-organic stuff that tasted fine. Also, my motivation for choosing organic when I do is getting less exposure to chemicals in the forms of insecticide,fungicide and the like, as well as fertilizer. To me that is more of an important point than only the taste.

agreed.

just from my limited exposure, the organics i have eaten have tasted better...but i am sure there are variations. and the only reason i bought organic was once, it was all they had and it was an amazing price! and the other times, b/c apparently my market has difficulty getting decent non-organic bananas... :P


my non-organic clementine just tasted awesome.

12345AGNST1

Im eating a non organic carrot right now and I have to say half the taste is fucking chemicals. I washed it and peeled the outside and it still tastes like shit....

Do organic vegetables get rid of that nasty chemical taste??

Yellow Ledbelly

Can't remember what show it was on...I'm guessing food network...but not all that long ago I saw a show where this dude set up a taste test with organic and non-organic fruits in front of an organic store and the percentage of people who said organic was absolutely better but then couldn't tell the difference was amazing. Trendy, cool non-sense is all it is in my book

mca47

Yellow Ledbelly wrote:

Can't remember what show it was on...I'm guessing food network...but not all that long ago I saw a show where this dude set up a taste test with organic and non-organic fruits in front of an organic store and the percentage of people who said organic was absolutely better but then couldn't tell the difference was amazing. Trendy, cool non-sense is all it is in my book

Yeah, well a large number of people also consider McDonalds to be "good" food.

You can call it nonsense all you want, but my tastebuds don't lie.

hrd2imgn

to be honest the organic stuff I have tried tastes different. Not better just different. Maybe it is all the poo juice seeping in.