What's happened to vegetables?

[presta]

Nowadays I serve them al dente, or raw, often steamed

Do you eat raw carrots? I eat one every day, and I get a bit fed up with the way half of them taste of agrichemicals.

 

[jefmcg]

Kale is for sheep, not humans. As for aubergines and asparagus, if you've never had

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/3091674/melanzane-parmigiana

you haven't lived.

Also who wants to live on a world with moussaka or baba ganoush?

 

[Sandra6]

Do you eat raw carrots? I eat one every day, and I get a bit fed up with the way half of them taste of agrichemicals.

I've never noticed a bad taste, but organic definitely taste better. Every now and then you get a really sweet one.

 

[presta]

I've never noticed a bad taste, but organic definitely taste better. Every now and then you get a really sweet one.

Perhaps it's just round here then. You couldn't fail to notice, it's a really powerful chemical taste at times, and leaves a feeling a bit like dry wine.

 

[jefmcg]

Perhaps it's just round here then. You couldn't fail to notice, it's a really powerful chemical taste at times, and leaves a feeling a bit like dry wine.

To be fair, dry white wines generally taste natural (beware of sweet wines and antifreeze), so tasting like a dry wine isn't proof of much except maybe fermentation.

(I have never noticed a pesticide or herbicide dimension in wine tasting)

 

[presta]

To be fair, dry white wines generally taste natural (beware of sweet wines and antifreeze), so tasting like a dry wine isn't proof of much except maybe fermentation.

(I have never noticed a pesticide or herbicide dimension in wine tasting)

I didn't mean it tastes like dry wine (it tastes of chemicals), but it feels dry like a dry wine.

 

[jefmcg]

I didn't mean it tastes like dry wine (it tastes of chemicals), but it feels dry like a dry wine.

Yeah, but still, you need to prove you know wine dry from herbicide dry.

 

[classic33]

Herbicide dry tends to be lingering, with a need to drink more of something like plain tapwater.

Gets to those levels, it'd not be the only thing noticed.

 

[growingvegetables]

Perhaps it's just round here then. You couldn't fail to notice, it's a really powerful chemical taste at times, and leaves a feeling a bit like dry wine.

No surprises - probably field grown; ie, with huge amounts of pesticide? Sadly (as above), the cleaner the carrot you buy, the more it will probably need peeling to avoid consuming the residue.

I only ever grew veg organically, so I don't remember off-hand where I read about farmers being allowed to use pesticides of a type, of a strength, and at a dosage deemed entirely too much for any other vegetable.

Yup ... carrot fly is a nasty pest. But the treatments are nastier still, I reckon.

 

[classic33]

No surprises - probably field grown; ie, with huge amounts of pesticide? Sadly (as above), the cleaner the carrot you buy, the more it will probably need peeling to avoid consuming the residue.

I only ever grew veg organically, so I don't remember off-hand where I read about farmers being allowed to use pesticides of a type, of a strength, and at a dosage deemed entirely too much for any other vegetable.

Yup ... carrot fly is a nasty pest. But the treatments are nastier still, I reckon.

And that's part of the problem.

Everyone wants nice clean veg, all the same size & colour(for the same type), at a cheap price. Not really doable on a large scale, growing outside the plants natural cycle. Those growing their own will know there'll always be a difference in size & colour, and it's seldom clean(mud/muck) as in the shops.

 

[growingvegetables]

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ROFLMAO!

Nearer to the truth than you might have imagined!

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/baby-carrots-are-liars_us_570d98cce4b03d8b7b9ec7f4

 

[Fnaar]

Miss Goodbody gets through quite a lot of courgettes.

 

[flake99please]

There should be an 'opt-in' function for this thread (similar to C & P) for those in Scotland.

 

[jefmcg]

ROFLMAO!

Nearer to the truth than you might have imagined!

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/baby-carrots-are-liars_us_570d98cce4b03d8b7b9ec7f4

That's the USA. Britain apparently has better labelling laws. Those guys are called mini carrots here. Those labelled baby carrots are clearly what they are.

 

[PaulSB]

Kale is for sheep, not humans. As for aubergines and asparagus, if you've never had

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/3091674/melanzane-parmigiana

you haven't lived.

Love Kale and that recipe has gone straight in to my meal planner - so middle class. Looks great.