TITLE:
The Influence of Organic and Conventional Food on Human Health
AUTHORS:
Manal Raden Al Mutiri, Noorah Saleh Al-Sowayan
KEYWORDS:
Organic Food, Consumer Benefits, Cancer Prevention
JOURNAL NAME:
Food and Nutrition Sciences,
Vol.12 No.12,
December
27,
2021
ABSTRACT: 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.