In a word… no. That’s according to CNN, who quotes a study by the British government as reported by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. To make this bold statement, researchers looked at “50,000 studies conducted over 50 years” and really studied things like how crops and livestock were raised and brought to market. What they found was that the biggest difference between “organic” versus everything else was in the kind of fertilizer used (nitrogen or phosphorus). But even then, researchers say the type of fertilizer had no effect on how healthy organic foods are.

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