Hi Di,

Your comment: 100% concentrated pineappleare full of junk just like everyone else's.

Whether businesses are small or large, they must sustain themselves financially, and that usually means compromise in quality.

Same problem happens with the growers and restaurants, bakeries, etc. who are trying so hard to improve things.

WHY home-grown and home-grower's exchanges may be best food sources, with a few exceptions!!!

Di

BTW, I use and totally love Dole's frozen pure pineapple juice. Consistently top quality.

Answer; They cannot package anything any better than what they know how to raise!

My point was to look into their info about foods and health and How related!

If they could learn How to raise better foods, then they would have Better foods to sell!

They just don't know how to raise better foods yet!

But at least they are pushing eating Fresh Fruits and Vegetables for better health and on this they are 100% Correct!

Cause and effect!

Smile Tis your choice.

Hi Di,

Your comment: Sounds like the promos for lots of the overly expensive dehydrated powdered supps of veg!!

So, will have the very same quality issues.

Also, these are processed foods. Can not be sure that extra NPN did not find its way into them!!!

A few of their selections are combos of food that are usually at least average in quality. Those food combos have worked well for me purchased IF THE FOOD IS FRSH AND HOME-PREPARED.

Others contain at least one food variety that is typically so poor in quality from almost all commercial sources that it should only be eaten home-grown. So, HOW will the combo of poor quality, too much NPN help ANYONE???

This advocacy makes NO sense to me, ML!!!

Di

Answer: Again you are missing the point I was trying to make!

Even tho they may not have Everything as Top Quality foods yet, at Least they are making the connection with food vs health!

Smile Tis your choice.

What if you got to the point of growing such an excess of high quality produce that you couldn't find enough people to trade with to make use of it all.

If you decided to take that high quality produce, dehydrate and grind it into powder and sell it to people, would it be valuable to them?

I mean they could take the time to learn how to grow their own produce but if you are so good at it what is dishonorable about you producing food for others, processing it in a way that you can concentrate the mineral content, reduce the shipping costs and preserve the shelf life and sending it to someone who does not wish to invest their time in learning how to grow something themselves.

Wouldn't you feel justified charging more money for these powdered vegetables? After all you went through the effort of producing high quality vegetables, and then processing them in a way that their quality was preserved and even concentrated.

Self sufficiency is good, but existing in community with others where different talents are used to produce different "fruits" of labor and these "fruits" are traded in a mutually honorable way is also good.

My point is there is nothing inherently wrong or evil with business. It is just a natural result of people serving each other. The money that changes hand is just another way of communicating gratefulness for having been served.

Large corporations have in general lost sight of this and many exist not to serve but to take. When these corporations do this these cease being businesses and become thieves. Stealing has a natural consequence according to the fair and equitable laws that God has created to govern the universe.

Business is not bad...companies engaging in business is not bad...stealing is the problem.

Whether or not Dole is a business or a collection of people engaging in mass thievery is up for debate. There is most likely a mix of both going on.

I do agree with moreless that those of us who have been around for a while forget that the first thing that needs to be taught to people is the simple principle of "You are what you eat." Choosing the best foods in terms of type and quality comes after the realization that the choice is actually connected and of primary importance to your health.

In my testing I haven't found organic produce tests higher BRIX than conventional produce.

The organic stuff does have the advantage of not having any pesticide residues, but you can grow low BRIX produce organically. I personally grew some pretty terrible strawberries this last time around ;).

Every time I try to come up with some general rule as a substitute for testing, it never holds up.

I wish it were easier but given the state of our food supply, there seems to be no alternative to learning how to grow high BRIX food and testing vigorously to produce that you buy.