Organic products: day fashion or health?

Organic foods – which we will hear more and more often. From Europe and the USA, the fashion for natural products came to Russia. Should such food on 40-5-percent more than regular, its ingredients are grown in small-scale farms. Natural products enjoy great popularity. It is considered, what is a healthy diet will help to maintain health and prolong life. But whether organic food is a tribute health? Maybe it is just a fashion trend?

To product was considered to be organic, it must be created from organic raw materials, organic ingredients and with special technological process. For example, in Europe to create environmentally friendly products resort to such an extent: prohibit make the land of fresh manure in less than 4 months before the harvest, if the crop can get in touch with the soil.

In addition, livestock do not apply hormonal growth stimulants and other veterinary drugs feed , with the remnants of dung and urine side products slaughtering of animals and birds. Well as for organic food, there is a taboo on genetic modification.

Organic products there are quite difficult to produce. But all used for their manufacture ingredients should be made only of natural raw materials without application of synthetic and artificial additives.

Market for organic products are developed to the best in US. There is a special trading network where you can buy any organic food. In Russia the production of such food still in their infancy. We do not have agriculture and livestock, which meets the strict organic standards. Therefore, almost all organic food products in our country is of foreign origin and are sold mainly in Moscow, in the big hypermarkets.

The expediency of purchase of organic food each independently. On the one hand, the number of its adherents are growing. With another – there are data Dutch researchers, talking about the fact that the composition of organic products do not differ from the ordinary, although much more expensive.