This journey began with wanting a tomato that tastes good. A simple culinary pleasure that isn’t common to find. One day at the grocery store, I decided to try something new and opted for the organic tomato. It looked like the other tomatoes but when I got home and took a bite, that was the first time in years that a tomato actually tasted sweet and flavorful. From that day forward, I started purchasing organic produce. Spinach was my next find in the flavor department and what a nice surprise when it didn’t get all soggy and brown within a few days. I found that since the leaves were not covered in pesticides there were no chemicals to deteriorate and keeping the spinach cold in an airtight container helps.
My next experiment was organic red grapes, one of my favorite fruits along with blueberries, especially when frozen. The sweet taste had no metallic after taste, which kept me coming back for more. I tried carrots, red peppers, onions, mushrooms and broccoli, all tasting sweet and flavorful. Then I tried organic potatoes. The sweetness was so real that I now bake them and don’t have to add olive oil and roasted garlic to enhance the flavor.
After purchasing organic fruits and veggies for about six months, my taste buds became so acute that I could now immediately tell the difference. The day this became apparent was when organic grapes were $6.99 a pound and it was costing $18.00 for a bag. That day I tried the conventional red grapes again. After soaking and scrubbing them, I could not get past the metallic taste after only eating a handful.
When you really think about what you’re eating with non-organic produce, we’re talking about the natural sweetness being laden with the metallic taste of pesticides. What we’re coming to understand is that pesticides are carcinogenic and we’re digesting this poison in our bodies. Cancer is at epidemic proportions and we have to start asking why and start analyzing what we’re eating.
I now understand why I never ate much fruit growing up; the pesticides tainted the taste. The other day when I was out running errands, I stopped in Trader Joe’s to pick up some organic bananas and red peppers, both easy to transport and convenient to eat in the car. The flavor was so sweet, curving my appetite with a low calorie count. Farmer’s markets are also a great place to find organic, but you have to ask each farm.
Our immune systems are only as good as the nutrition we digest. By helping our body to work at optimum, we safeguard our health. If you love food and your taste buds haven’t been weakened from cigarettes or alcohol poisoning, give organic a try. It becomes effortless to eat more fruits and veggies when they taste so good.
Susan Elaine Wheeler’s fascination with human nature started at a very young age, always asking the question why. Why do people do the things they do? The cause and effect of our behaviors determine our environments with the decisions we make. Susan’s career successes include owning her marketing company AMPS, Advantage, Marketing, Promotions and Sales, National Sales for Kramer Guitars and creating and developing Professional Accounts for Guitar Center in Hollywood, CA. This year she started a new company, Creative Perspective Solutions, CPS working with individuals and companies that want to accelerate their excellence while maximizing the productivity and branding of their talents, qualities and vision through effective communications.
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