The nutritional value of Britain’s most common crops including wheat, apples and carrots, has fallen by up to 50 per cent, scientists have suggested.
A new study found adults today need to consume twice as many vegetables as they did in 1960 to get the same amount of vital vitamins and minerals, due to a decline in soil quality.
The researchers, from tech firm Deep Science Ventures, found that many crops have lost between 20 and 50 per cent of their key nutrients including potassium, iron, selenium and zinc.
The effects of this are ‘enormous’ researchers say, potentially pushing around five million working-age
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