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1st or 3 VIP Factors influencing Taste and food Value : Soil
What is the Best Soil for Tomatoes?
Crops and plants have different nutrient / input requirements.
So, understand what your plant needs first, then prepare your soil appropriately. There are a number of low cost tools or services to help you here, which NutriBalance Systems (not up yet) can provide.
We recommend natural, chem-free ways of enriching soil such as composts. worm juice or similar. And ensure you buy GMO-free seed!
Worms are your best "forever" fertiliser - just keep feeding them.
2nd VIP Factor : Ripeness
Are you finding produce tasting sweeter than before?
Probably, as from Jan, 2026, we can now buy GMO Tomatoes legally and soon many more produce items. You have been able to buy NBT (New Breeding Techniques - similar to GMO) modified produce in order to circumvent Australian anti-GMO laws (in effect until Dec., 2025).
So, if you wish to avoid the long-term effects of a double whammy of:
- Sugar / fructose laden produce, and
- GMO / NBT
then there are 2 Nx models which measures both nutrient density and sugar content levels in one read:
- NxC - Consumer grade, designed for Customers to, fast and easily, pick the best from what is on front of them in 4-5 auto-scans:
- NxL - Lab grade, a 12 sec scan for more accurate readings for greater integrity, useful for Farmers and Research purposes.
Both do the same functions of readings :
- Nutrient Density Indices (NDI)*,
- Sugar Content Indices (SCI), and
- SCI / NDI Ratios', so that one can identify / compare artificially sugar laden produce with natural produce.
* which we are currently correlating with BRIX readings for 450 varieties of produce in ANZ, which we have collected since 2010, correlations, so you can assess whether produce is rated "poor', 'average', 'good' or 'excellent' before you have to pay for it, and sugar comparisons against natural, unmodified produce. If you are interested in helping us, join a local workshop. (very educational).
best Produce : There are 3 factors which directly affect the
Appropriate Soil!
Picked at the right time!
Picked at the right time!
Every crop or plant has it's own specific nutrient requirements!
Picked at the right time!
Picked at the right time!
Picked at the right time!
See below the Ripeness Curve!
Eaten Fresh!
Picked at the right time!
Eaten Fresh!
The fresher, the better - the more delicious, nutritious!
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