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The Myth of Growing High Nutrient Density Food

The quality of food is so important to everyone these days and many are growing their own to have better control over nutrient density. Lots of different gardening styles like organic, permaculture and regenerative promote their system as the best way to keep nutrient density high.

How much of this information is true? What can a backyard gardener do to grow more nutritious food?

In this post I will help you understand what nutrient density really is, and I’ll help you weed through a lot of the gardening myths that claim to grow high density food.

The Myth of Growing High Nutrient Density Food

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Nutrient Density – Can it be Measured With a Brix Refractometer?

Everybody wants to grow nutritious food and it has become common to measure nutrient density with a Brix refractometer. High Brix is equated to highly nutritious food, but is this really true?

Brix readings have been used in agriculture for many years but is there a reason for gardeners to bother making this measurement? What does it tell you about the quality of food? I’ll answer these and other questions in this post as I take you down the yellow brix road.

Nutrient Density - Can it be Measured With a Brix Refractometer? — Nutrient Density – Can it be Measured With a Brix Refractometer?

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