What Are Natural, Organic Foods?

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​Natural, Organic Foods
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"Try Organic Food...or as your Grandparents called it, FOOD."
~Reality in Balance

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Remember how the old saying goes, that once we know better, we can do better for ourselves? Well, hopefully, the next time that someone kindly suggests that you buy natural, organic foods, you’ll have the essential tools given here to understand why that might be.


Natural, whole, or organic food's connection to health and wellness can be easy for us to relate. As with all organic foods, none are grown or handled using genetically modified organisms, which are prohibited in USDA organic standards. GMO is the engineering of a microorganism to synthesize its properties, altering its natural process and sustainability- otherwise, grown in lab space. 

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​What Are Natural, Organic Foods?
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​USDA organic regulations are grown and processed foods according to federal guidelines: soil quality, pesticide and weed control, animal raising practices, and use of additives.


USDA ORGANIC
PRODUCE:
​Before harvest season, organic produce entails that there are no prohibited substances grown on soil for three years. The difference between organic and conventional produce is the number of pesticides used to defend against insects while the plant is in the growing stage. 

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USDA ORGANIC MEAT:

USDA organic regulations for meat require that animals are raised in living conditions accommodating their natural behaviors, like the ability to graze on pastures, fed 100% organic feed/forage, and are not subjected to antibiotics or hormones.

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USDA ORGANIC PROCESSED, MULTI-INGREDIENT FOODS:

These items follow USDA Organic regulations with minor exceptions that may contain some approved non-agriculture ingredients: enzymes in yogurt, pectin in fruit jams, or baking soda in baked goods.

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PROHIBITED SUBSTANCES

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USDA Organic foods do not consist of added trans-fat, artificial colors, dyes, artificial flavoring and growth hormones, antibiotics, vegetable oils, chemical fertilizers, chemical food additives, genetically modified organisms, high-fructose corn syrup, preservatives like sodium nitrate and sodium nitrates, or toxic pesticides. 



While packaged foods are popular today, Dr. LLaila O. Afrika states that “contemporary junk food and fast food diet is based upon denatured, highly refined, processed, genetically altered and synthetically chemicalized, non-foods.”  It has zero nutritional value.

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