Sentences with phrase «nutritional quality of the soil»

This approach to farming looks to maintain important ecosystems in food production and preserve the nutritional quality of the soil.

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Plus, reports indicate that the nutritional quality of food has dropped considerably in the past 10 - 20 years as soils are depleted and lacking in essential minerals, vitamins and trace nutrients.

For nutritional insurance - to help plug the gaps in your diet due to poor food quality, soil depletion and imperfect dietary choices; and because of the demands our bodies make for extra nutrients due to environmental toxins and our high - stress modern lifestyles.

Zinc deficiency is increasingly common due to mainstream diets void of adequate fruits and vegetables, and soil depletion affecting the nutritional quality of the produce that we do eat.

Pulse crops such as lentils are also environmentally sustainable in that they participate in nitrogen fixation through a symbiotic relationship with Rhizobium soil bacteria, which improves nutritional quality and yield of subsequent crops when used as a rotation crop (Migliozzi et al., 2015).