Nutrient Density: the Next Big Frontier in Human Health and Food Production

You care about what you put on your table. You shop organic, support local farms, and maybe even grow some of your own food. But lately, even the “healthy” produce seems a little... disappointing. The flavor’s dull, the shelf life is short, and you’re not feeling the vibrant energy you expect from “clean eating.” Your food has changed—and not for the better. We’re in the middle of a silent crisis: nutrient density in food is plummeting, and our bodies notice. 

Studies indicate that the typical American diet is high in calories but low in nutrients. In food terms, energy refers to calories. You might be familiar with the phrase "empty calories," which refers to foods that offer calories but lack substantial nutrients. In contrast, nutrient-dense foods provide a lot of nutrients while being relatively low in calories.

Studies show modern produce can contain up to 40% fewer nutrients than the same fruits and vegetables from 70 years ago. 

That’s not just a farming issue—it’s a human health issue. Our soil has been stripped, sterilized, and neglected. As a result, humans are experiencing chronic illness at record levels while simultaneously suffering malnutrition and obesity.  We have the unprecedented opportunity to consider food-as-medicine today.

Compost may help, but only if it was made from materials themselves grown in nutrient-dense, living soils. 

Compost is made from decayed vegetable matter. Nutrient poor starting materials cannot make nutrient dense compost. Minerals cannot automagically appear in compost and be incorporated into food. Plants can only work with what they're growing in. And that's where fertilizers come in - it's like a multivitamin for the soil so that the plants growing in this soil can use everything that's there. 

There's more to this quest than added minerals and elements. Nutrient density is also determined by microbial life in the soil.

It takes microbial life in the soil to make these vitamins, minerals, and nutrients bioavailable to the plants for uptake and incorporation into the vegetables, fruits and berries that we eat.

A multivitamin of minerals and nutrients 

Our certified organic liquid fertilizer & soil inoculant restores vitality to soil, ensuring your plants are packed with the vitamins and minerals that human bodies crave. Our formulas include fish emulsion, fish manure, kelp, volcanic ash, and dozens of strains of living mycorrhizae and beneficial microbes, blended into a family of functional convenient easy-to-use products. 

Boosting bioavailability by increasing soil life

Just as healthy gut biome is critical for proper human digestion, a healthy soil microbiome is required for proper plant nutrition. It's a complicated biological dance. Microbial populations need replenishment if they've been eradicated through chemicals and contaminants and that's exactly what our products add- billions of colonies of beneficial soil microbes and mycorrhizae. If you make your own compost, you can improve the quality of it. Eden Earth products add nutrients to the process, as well as accelerate the compost production process and enhance microbial action. 

Putting it all together in a harmonious symphony of nutrition

Our prebiotic soil sweetener feeds the microbes we add. Our foliar spray provides nutrition directly through the leaves. Our inoculated biochar offers plants' root systems a century’s worth of stable carbonaceous biomass below. This serves a double-duty, offering drought resilience and a reservoir of nutrition and microbial life. Finally, have a special formula just for lawns that boosts the health of the grasses and forbs in the yard, too. By extension, if you make your own compost with these clippings, you will see speedier, better compost. Other families enjoy a lush healthy lawn that's immediately completely safe. Synergistically, our products rejuvenate the soil life, creating a living, breathing ecosystem that ultimately nourishes healthy plants for human health and the environment.

How to Start Growing Nutrient-Dense Food Today:

• Step 1: Stop feeding your plants chemicals —start feeding your soil
• Step 2: Use a liquid certified organic fertilizer & soil microbe inoculant combination to replenish depleted minerals and microbes.
• Step 3: Choose seeds or starts with high nutritional value.
• Step 4: Watch your plants—and your health—thrive.

If we keep doing what’s easy—buying conventional produce grown in dead soil—and the result will be more of the same: bland, short-lived food that doesn’t support your health, decreasing in nutrient value every year. These are the winter tomatoes in the grocery store that taste like sadness.  Your garden can’t do better until your soil gets better.

A tomato that you’ve grown yourself tastes like summer sunshine. Imagine herbs that smell like heaven and meals that actually energize you. With Eden Earth, you can grow nutrient-rich food that supports your immune system, your energy, and your family’s future. Certified organic, and safe for people, pets and pollinators.

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