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Part 172 - Dan Kittredge on the Amazing Power of Nutrient Density and How to Measure It

Peak Human - Unbiased Nutrition Info for Optimum Health, Fitness & Living

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What Is Nutrient Density?

In traditional food science speak, kale is more nutrient dense than rice. We're talking about a different meaning of the word. The health of the microbiome of the plant that was producing the food connects very, very nicely with the nutrient levels in the food. When you use tillage and chemicals to produce crops, you get crops that have lots of volume but very little nutrition.

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