The answer to this question, according to a Reuters Story titled, "Organic Food is no Healthier, Study Finds", is No. The article points to a study conducted by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine that analyzed the nutritional content of organic and "ordinary" food and found little difference.
What I am about to say may surprise you though it shouldn't - I could have told them that without the study.
The study was flawed from the outset because of the assumption they made about why people choose to eat organic. People choose organic because they do not want to ingest the harmful pesticides and chemicals that have been shown to cause illness and disease. What makes organic food healthier is not the nutritional content but its ability to provide your body with unencumbered nutrition.
Therefore, I would have to disagree vehemently with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine's conclusion. Organic Food IS healthier than conventional food.
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