Vitamin A is lacking in today's fruits and vegetables.Vitamin A content in our soil has dropped drastically over the last 50 years. I. SOIL QUALITY. Over the past 50 years corporate farming practices have replaced traditional ones, with devastating consequences to the land. Whereas farmers once understood the importance of crop rotation and leaving land un-planted to support soil regeneration, today soil is pushed to the limits. Driven by profits and an attitude of ‘bigger-better-faster-more,” corporate farms no longer make soil maintenance a priority. Because of time and cost, they no longer plow mineral-rich natural substance like kelp, manure and compost back into the soil to help build healthy plants naturally. Instead corporate farms use three elements – nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium, (NPK) to force growth. The results are plants that grow bigger quicker, looks acceptable, but are deficient in the dozen of nutrients needed by humans to sustain optimal health. The peach is a good example - Its vitamin "A" content has dropped approximately 98 percent.
A recent report revealed that an adult woman eating two peached a day in 1951 would have fulfilled her current RDA for vitamin "A". Today, to meet that requirement, she would have to eat 53 peaches.
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