Are organic vegetables truly "Organic"? How to genuinely eat worry-free vegetables
- SINGRASS
- Jul 10
- 3 min read
What are organic vegetables?
Organic vegetables refer to vegetable products that, during the production process, strictly adhere to organic production protocols, prohibit the use of any chemically synthesized pesticides, chemical fertilizers, growth regulators, and other chemical substances, as well as genetically engineered organisms and their products. They must also be certified by an organic food certification body and issued an organic food certificate.
How are organic vegetables specifically produced?
In addition to strictly prohibiting the use of chemical products during the production process, organic vegetable production also requires that the production area be located away from urban areas, industrial zones, mining areas, major traffic arteries, domestic waste sites, industrial pollution sources, and other areas that may introduce contamination to the vegetables.
Furthermore, plots used for organic vegetable production must be separated from plots used for conventional vegetable production. This maximizes the safety of vegetable food products in terms of the production environment and production processes.
Nevertheless, do organic vegetables have no hidden risks?
First, organic vegetable certification does not require testing and recertification for every batch produced and sold by an organic farm. Instead, a single certification is valid for multiple years of use. It is difficult to rule out the possibility that some merchants, motivated by profit, may lower their production standards after obtaining organic product certification.
Second, the substantial quantities of organic fertilizer used in organic vegetable production are mostly derived from livestock and poultry farms. In pursuit of higher feed-to-meat ratios, farms commonly add various nutritional supplements and hormones to the feed given to livestock and poultry.
Medical research has shown that long-term consumption of meat containing hormone residues can disrupt the human hormonal system, thereby affecting immune, metabolic, and reproductive functions.
These hormones not only remain in the meat but are also excreted through the digestive system and remain in the manure, ultimately flowing into organic farms under the guise of organic fertilizer!
When consuming organic vegetables produced with such hormone-containing organic fertilizer, the hormones enter the human body through the food chain. The human body lacks a self-protection mechanism to degrade these hormones. Ultimately, through the effect of bioaccumulation, hormones originating from livestock farms accumulate significantly in the human body without detection, compromising the immune system and increasing the risk of breast cancer, prostate cancer, and uterine cancer.
So how can one eat a truly worry-free vegetable?
The answer from the Singrass® Indoor Smart Eco System (ISES™) is: Eat leafy vegetables that you have watched grow yourself!
As a carrier of a new generation of indoor ecological farms, the Singrass® Indoor Smart Eco System (ISES™) places the farm where it can be seen by the human eye, allowing fresh, pollution-free vegetables to mature under your watch. This achieves freshness from source to table, eliminating the need for traceability.
Can I trust the singrass® Indoor smart ecosystem (ISES™)?
The Singrass® Indoor Smart Eco System (ISES™) employs cutting-edge hydroponic technology in the agricultural field. The nutrient solution used contains only the mineral elements essential for plant growth, with no growth hormones and no pesticide inputs. It guarantees that the entire growth process of the leafy vegetables is visible, clean, safe, and free of potential risk factors.
Every vegetable you eat is genuinely a worry-free vegetable!
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