There is more of a new vitamin in veggies and fruit and that is vitamin S; S for sugar. I noticed lately that little grape tomatoes taste more like grape than tomato! Other offenders are corn and green peas; corn that is so sweet that it doesn't taste like corn. Oranges that are too sweet. Grape fruits that have lost tartness. Even lemon is sweeter. I read that even soya bean has changed to be sweeter and it has less protein. Probably it is the same for most pulses; they have modified them to cook faster so they have more starch and less protein.

Sigh, more sensationalist, low-quality coverage, and, as always, proper scientific studies refute these claims: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S088915751....

Also Deep Science Ventures / Hollow Harvests is a biased startup that simply cannot be seen to be objective on these matters.

The study in question was by "Deep Science Ventures" - a venture capital firm specializing in bio-technologies.

People have been trying to spin stories about soil degradation since... ironically, the 1960s.

While these might be true, the actual answers are usually much more mundane:

- We choose fruits and vegetables increasingly for their taste

- The rise of hydroponics and salad vegetables in general

- Quicker harvests with less time to absorb nutrients

Our diets are much more diverse and fortified compared to the pre-war period - nutritional deficits are not nearly the concern they used to be.

Headline:

"Vegetables half as nutritious as they were in the 1960s"

Body:

"The study found that many crops had lost 20pc to 50pc of several key nutrients."

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So, vegetables are possibly 80% as nutritious as they were in the 60's if these key nutrients capture the complete nutritional value of vegetables, which they don't. Regardless, that's some pretty sloppy linkbait garbage.