Unless your are fattening hogs or feeding starving people, the brix
level is meaningless. It measures calories (sugars and starches), not
the nutrients we eat fruit and vegetables for. The nutrients of
interest are the vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, etc., not the
calories. Fewer calories is good. However this sap reading is also
misleading, since many larger vegetables have a more dilute sap but
contain the same amount or more of sugars and starches.

"Tom Jaszewski" wrote:

Brix reading of miracle grow vegetables show them for what they are,
poor nutrition.

Total dissolved solids (or Brix), measured with the ATC-1e
Refractometer. This number indicates the level of balance of nutrient
uptake and complexing into sugars or proteins in the photosynthesis
factory the leaf.

I am not a proponent of miracle grow or organic gardening, just truth in
posting.

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