p.k. fertilizes in a manner that creates rapid growth but doesn't necessarily how the plant itself to be as i say my community and there so you have a massive surprise over a carrot or potato that doesn't necessarily mean that the nutrient content is as dense as it would be in the past. my guess is as i had cancer the calcium levels and zinc levels haven't increased but the carbohydrate levels have. that's how our crops eels have increased. that although we eat twice as many vegetables as we did in the 1970 s. we take in less and less minerals and trace elements down. selectively bred fast growing crops to shallow roots and poor nutritional value. if moreover the soil is lifeless and incapable of delivering minerals and trace elements does it mean that contemporary food production is failing to carry out its most important task delivering a healthy and diverse food. but boredom only lost the diversity both in a great culture and in our food when we switched to modern wheat varieties. and the mineral levels have also decreased in these we. means so we get less micronutrients from the modern