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"Ivan McDonagh" wrote in message
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"Ray Drouillard" wrote in
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"Terry Collins" wrote in message
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Ivan McDonagh wrote:

SNIP


Don't forget the big reason:

The food tastes so much better!


Ray


It's this sort of anectodal evidence, Ray, that I'm curious about -
one
of my friends had a load of vegies from my totally organic garden
last
year and maintained how much better they were than the chemically
grown
ones. Yet I genuinely couldn't say definitely one way or the other
....
SNIP

As I understand it, someone did some blind tests to prove or disprove
the
claim that home-grown veggies taste better, and the results basically
were
that even the home growers couldn't tell their own produce from
supermarket
bought produce. I don't know whether this was cooked, raw or a mixture
of
both.

But I don't care, there's nothing to beat the smug feeling of knowing
that
you grew what you're eating.

I wonder who did the study. I wonder what veggies were used. Radishes
and lettuce might be difficult, but I have yet to see a store-boughten
peach that comes even close to one that was picked ripe from the tree
(as opposed to being picked green and ripened after being severed from
its source of sugar). The same sort of goes for tomatoes. It isn't as
much an issue of vine-ripening, but there is a taste that comes with
home grown tomatoes that is missing in the store-boughten fare. Perhaps
buying some of the $3.00/pound premium tomatoes would fix that, but I
wouldn't bet on it.


Ray Drouillard