Although conventionally grown orang...

Although conventionally grown oranges are typically twice as large as their organic counterparts, the organic single in kinds contain 30 percent more vitamin C While you might calculate upon to reap better health benefits from the larger oranges, all you're really getting is more-water.

Assisted according to his undergraduate students in the spring of 2002 Theo Clark, PhD--then a visiting chemistry professor at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri--analyzed the pair types of fruit. "The orange is the traditional source of vitamin C and it's highly commercialized," Clark said, announcing his findings upon June 2, 2002, at a meeting of the American Chemical Society in Minneapolis. "But no united to our knowledge has fancy to compare the organic and conventionally grown varieties."

Clark says the reason for the surplus vitamin C in organic oranges isn't clear. However, he propounded one possible explanation for the increased size of conventional oranges: The nitrogen in fertilizers used in succession conventional oranges may cause them to absorb more water, making them bigger.

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