Health and the GM vegetables and fruits

I am an 80 years old diabetic patient. Yesterday I purchased fresh bitter guard (karela). I wanted to drink its juice. Before that I just sliced a piece and put it in the mouth to feel the taste. It was not at all bitter. I sliced the whole of it into piece and ate up without a problem of taste.

I wonder if the agriculture scientists are turning the bitter guard into a sweet guard. If that is the case the karela will lose its sanctity as a medicine to treat diabetese. Besides, karela is eaten because it is eaten for its properties, being bitter. This genetic modification of vegetables is not at all desirable.

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G. C. Mathur (Consumer Activist)

Thanks for providing this vital knowledge about carrots, we have been ignorant about. It is helpful in understanding the properties of the carrot. more

Jul 22

Rajeev Arora

The darker the carrot color the more anti-oxidants and beta-carotene (precursor to vitamin A), it has. In color terms it would be purple, dark orange, orange, red, yellow and white. I would not worry about this too much so far as the carrots are juicy and somewhat sweet in taste - I like the common red variety we normally get in the market. I grow the orange carrots (from seeds) in my kitchen garden in winters - they are also quite nice. more

Jul 21

Umesh Kumar

Mr. Rajeev Arora Ji, Thanks for nice information. From nutrition point which varieties of carrots are better i.e red, yellow, orange, purple, white. I am yet to see white carrot. In Ghaziabad market except for yellow and orange varieties, all other have vanished. They are harder if eaten raw with less juice & sweetness and give a feeling of no/lesser good as compared to old & traditional red & purple red variety. Are they GM variety? Why carrots till recently in one of the most economical salad and vegetable has also become quite costly variety besides less sweet, hard and less juicy as compared to red and purple red variety? more

Jul 21

Dharam Pall Parashar

Thanks Aroraji more

Jul 21

Rajeev Arora

Wild carrots were originally white or purple in color and spread around the world from Afganistan about 5000 years ago. They spread to the west and mutated to yellow and orange colors. The movement to the east (Pakistan, India and the rest of Asia) mutated to more reddish tones and with a lot more sweetness and juice. The yellow, orange and red hues are due to carotenoids which are the key beneficial element in carrots. White carrots are not a genetically modified variety, it is sweeter and juicier with the lowest amount of beneficial carotenoids. more

Jul 21

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