THE VIDEO SHELF · crop nutrient decline
Is Our Food Becoming Less Nutritious?
Veritasium examines whether food has become less nutritious, weighing soil depletion, selective breeding and rising atmospheric CO2. It evidences nutrient decline even in weeds over a century and ties it to faster plant growth.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN people recommend it as a short, contextualizing explainer on declining crop nutrient density.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Veritasium
- Topic
- crop nutrient decline
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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"Is Our Food Becoming Less Nutritious?: Veritasium"[1] is a good short video that puts this into context. [1]: [VIDEO]
gholap on Hacker News · 2019-08
In Nutrient deficiencies in rice grown under higher carbon dioxideDerek from Vertasium on YouTbe has a nice explanation. Even showing how the nutrient levels in weed specimens are also falling. The weeds were collected by researchers over the last 100 or more years. The weeds were vital because it showed it wasn't limited to …
dghughes on Hacker News · 2019-09
In Estimates that mineral levels in vegetables have dropped by up to 90% since 1914
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