How many oranges does the speaker claim you'd have to eat today to equal one orange from grandparents' era?

Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

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14 Nov 2023 · 1 min

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The speaker (Josh Trent) argues that modern fruits and vegetables contain far fewer minerals and vitamins than they did decades ago—attributed to declining soil quality—and gives an illustrative claim that you would need to eat eight oranges today to match the nutrition your grandparents got from one orange. He emphasizes that organ meats (liver, heart, other organs) are far more nutrient-dense—sometimes 10x to 50x higher—and notes ancestral practices of prioritizing organs. The speaker expresses a desire to make organ-derived nutrition accessible to people who won’t eat or prepare organs themselves.

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Eight oranges.

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We'd have to eat eight oranges today to get the same level of nutrition that our grandparents got from just eating one orange. We have the challenge of our food just not being as nutritious as it used to be because of declining soil quality. So you look at content of magnesium and other minerals and vitamins in fruits and vegetables today versus just 50 years ago, and it's dramatically lower. Organs, as it turns out, are the most nutrient dense foods we can eat. More than tenfold difference, sometimes 20, 40, 50 difference between the amount of nutrients in liver and even other very nutrient dense foods. Our ancestors knew this. Native Americans used to throw the muscle meats, which is pretty much all we eat today, like steaks and chops and things like that. They used to throw those to the dogs and just eat the heart and the liver and the organs themselves. So I wanted a way to give people access to the incredible nutritional benefits of organs without having to eat or prepare them, because I knew that just almost nobody will do that.