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Are fruits and vegetables grown under glass, plastic or artificial light as nutritious as ones grown outside in direct sunlight?
Tony Woodward
Portland, Oregon, US
Fruits and vegetables grown in greenhouses can be as nutritious as those grown in fields under natural light. Indeed, under ideal conditions they are more nutritious and healthier.
Greenhouses provide a constant environment without the hazards of bad weather; insufficient sunlight can be corrected by electric light. Properly maintained greenhouses don’t have the pests that can attack plants in the field and therefore don’t need the toxic pesticides commonly sprayed over fields. Moreover, in a…
