It’s essential we restore minerals to soil.
Mineral restoration is an important practice for reconstitution in agriculture, particularly for revitalizing soil health and vitality.
It is well documented that one of the biggest issues affecting the quality of our soils today, as well as fruits and vegetables we consume, is the declining mineral content that results from increasingly stressed, chemical intensive agriculture practices.
In the last 50 years alone many of the fruits and vegetables we consume have been depleted of 40-50% of their overall mineral content. This is a direct result of soil that has been depleted of minerals, leading to a reduction in the bioavailability of vital nutrients that put at risk the health of all living organisms in the critical nutritional chain beginning with soil, but also affecting plant, animal, and human.
It is well documented that one of the biggest issues affecting the quality of our soils today, as well as fruits and vegetables we consume, is the declining mineral content that results from increasingly stressed, chemical intensive agriculture practices.
In the last 50 years alone many of the fruits and vegetables we consume have been depleted of 40-50% of their overall mineral content. This is a direct result of soil that has been depleted of minerals, leading to a reduction in the bioavailability of vital nutrients that put at risk the health of all living organisms in the critical nutritional chain beginning with soil, but also affecting plant, animal, and human.
Table summarising changes in mineral content of different types of vegetables (27 varieties), fruit (17 types) and meat (10 cuts) measured between 1940 and 1991. *
Mineral |
Vegetable
|
Fruit
|
Meat
|
Sodium (Na)
|
-49%
|
-29%
|
-30%
|
Potassium (K)
|
-16%
|
-19%
|
-16%
|
Phosphorous (P)
|
+9%
|
+2%
|
-28%
|
Magnesium (Mg)
|
-24%
|
-16%
|
-10%
|
Calcium (Ca)
|
-46%
|
-16%
|
-41%
|
Iron (Fe)
|
-27%
|
-24%
|
-54%
|
Copper (Cu)
|
-76%
|
-20%
|
-24%
|
* Nutrition and Health 2003; 17: 85-115.
The specific know-how at Global Organics, experience and specialized company in soil and plant nutrition, aims to address the critical responsibility to sustainability to positively influence agricultural practices by replenishing what has been grossly depleted, for the betterment of everything we farm and provide as food.
In this regard, Global Organics has had a long standing philosophy centered on mineral restoration and rebalancing of soil to yield a cumulative positive impact on agriculture and the critical nutritional chain.