Author(s)

Manal Raden Al Mutiri, Noorah Saleh Al-Sowayan^*

Department of Biology, College of Science, Qassim University, Buraydah, Saudi Arabia.

Organic food offers immense benefits to consumers as it contains a higher content of nutrients and antioxidants. The benefits of organic food over conventional products have been demonstrated by in-vitro experiments, whereby statistical analysis has shown that both types of food can have equivalent benefits. One of the important disadvantages of conventional food is that it contains heavy metals and also does not contribute toward prevention of cancer in consumers. It is not clear yet if consuming organic food combats obesity; we have attempted to gather some literature to clarify this aspect as well.

Organic Food, Consumer Benefits, Cancer Prevention

Mutiri, M. and Al-Sowayan, N. (2021) The Influence of Organic and Conventional Food on Human Health. Food and Nutrition Sciences, 12, 1299-1305. doi: 10.4236/fns.2021.1212095.