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wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

The problem is that the way GMO is used in practice is to maximize profits: get giant fruits that weigh a lot and catch eyes on the shelf, but are low in nutritional value and have shitty taste/texture.

Like huge strawberries that taste like water, or taste unripe even when they’re ripe. Or giant asparagus that’s as tough as sisal twine.

I have a theory that if you GMO to prioritize nutritional density, it’ll taste better, because the photonutrients are the stuff that taste good.

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Captain_Patchy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

nutritional value

Is not a consideration either way (and that’s part of the problem) time and “viability” from pick to market are even more important than that and even flavor. Hence, hothouse tomatoes, the most tasteless tomato on the planet.

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- wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Right, that’s what I’m saying. But the nutritional density suffers as a result of maximizing size and yield.
  
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gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
wtf are photonutrients?

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- wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Phytonutrients, it was fucking autocorrect’s fault
  
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  - Captain_Patchy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    
    asparagus
    
    Aldi’s in Chicago has wonderfully thin and crisp asparagus almost all the time. Don’t ask me how, I just buy and eat it.
    
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    wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Probably cause it’s grown in Europe where they actually regulate their food production…
    
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