The Vitamin Vanishing Act: What Happened to Our Food's Nutrition?

21/10/2025 7 min
The Vitamin Vanishing Act: What Happened to Our Food's Nutrition?

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Share your thoughts🌱 Your food isn't what your grandmother ate - and now we know why!Join hosts Meera and Ashok Vasudevan as they uncover "The Vitamin Vanishing Act" - how modern agriculture traded nutrition for productivity, and what you can do about it in your own kitchen.What Happened: Over the past 70 years, many fruits and vegetables have lost significant amounts of key nutrients. The focus on fast-growing, high-yielding, good looking, travel ready  varieties during the Green Revolution prioritized appearance and shelf-life over nutritional quality.Why Your Kitchen is the Solution: ✅ Choose heirloom varieties that retained their nutritional power ✅ Support regenerative farmers who build soil health ✅ Create your own vitamin factory with container gardens ✅ Transform vegetable "waste" into nutrient-rich broths, pestos, and patties ✅ Use traditional preservation techniques that concentrate vitamins ✅ Ferment and dehydrate like your grandmother didDon't just supplement what's missing - discover how to unleash the magic in your kitchen and create food that's more nutritious than what's available in most stores!Tags: #KitchenPharmacy #NutrientDensity #HeirloomVarieties #RegenerativeAgriculture #FoodAsmedicine #SoilHealth #TraditionalFood #MeeraVasudevan #AshokVasudevan #CSAW Thanks for tuning in to "Pay the Farmer, Not the Pharmacy"! Hosted by Meera & Ashok Vasudevan Stay Connected #PayTheFarmerNotThePharmacy #PlantBasedWellness #NaturalFood #AffordableWellness #GutHealth #ImmunityBoost #NutritionTips #CSAW (Centre for the Spread of Affordable Wellness) #Meeravasudevan#Ashokvasudevanhttps://umaglobalfoods.com/ https://csaw.co https://podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/pay-the-farmer-not-the-pharmacy/id1512934794 https://open.spotify.com/show/34nzNQQ62O8tygMaut2h8V