Empty Veggies?

The arrival of my old-timey, open-pollinated seeds was a pretty welcome event for the flavors I´m expecting ...in exchange for less yield and maybe some less than picture-perfect fruits.

What I didn´t know was how much supermarket fruits and veggies have lost in nutrition over decades of hybridization.  Mother Jones has a great slideshow on this.

Not only have we given up real deliciousness for spotless perfection and the ability to survive brutal transportation to market ...the vitamins and minerals that we all thought we were getting have taken a pretty steep decline!