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    1. Elisabeth Bik‏Verified account @MicrobiomDigest 20 Aug 2019

      Wait - this does not sound very scientific, @sciam. "The level of every nutrient in almost every kind of food has fallen between 10 and 100 percent" https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/broccoli-is-dying-corn-is-toxic-long-live-microbiomes/?amp … via @sciam

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    2. Elisabeth Bik‏Verified account @MicrobiomDigest 20 Aug 2019

      This is complete bullshit, @sciam. You might mean certain minerals, such as copper, but I bet that main nutrients such as protein, carbohydrates etc have remained remarkably the same.

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    3. Elisabeth Bik‏Verified account @MicrobiomDigest 20 Aug 2019

      Let's trace this back. The citation in the @sciam article links to an article on EcoFarming Daily, which links to this 2007 paper about mineral changes (note: not nutrient changes):https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/026010600701900205 …

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    4. Elisabeth Bik‏Verified account @MicrobiomDigest 20 Aug 2019

      This 2007 paper looked at mineral levels in main food items such as meat and milk and vegetables. Copper appears to be the one that decreased a lot in food items from 1940 to 2002.

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    5. Elisabeth Bik‏Verified account @MicrobiomDigest 20 Aug 2019

      But, @puddleg pointed out in his earlier tweet that copper was used as a fungicide in the 1940, but not as much in 2002.

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    6. Elisabeth Bik‏Verified account @MicrobiomDigest 20 Aug 2019

      One could also argue that measurements of minerals in 1940 might have been done by a different method than in 2002. I did not investigate if methods were really different, though. Just my late night 2 cents.

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 20 Aug 2019
      Replying to @MicrobiomDigest @sciam @puddleg

      There's been research on this in the past - it's almost impossible to compare the early estimates of mineral density with modern ones, and doing so in this context is risible https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0889157516302113 …

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        1. gmopundit (David Tribe Ph.D.) Vinceremo‏ @gmopundit 21 Aug 2019
          Replying to @GidMK @MicrobiomDigest and

          The old literature even has errors. Fe content of spinach famous for years via Popeye, had an order of magnitude error I recall from memory. Twitter check my memory on this

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