6 ways to eat a balanced diet as fruit and vegetables lose their nutritional value

The report estimates that around 5 million UK working-age adults are short of essential vitamins and minerals (Picture: Shutterstock / Tijana Simic)

If you’re carefully filling your shopping basket with fresh berries and leafy greens, assuming you’re ticking all the healthy boxes, you might want to take a closer look.

It turns out that today’s produce isn’t quite the nutritional powerhouse it used to be.

Common staples like wheat, apples, and carrots are now half as nutritious as they were in the 1960s, a new study reveals.

Research from Deep Science Ventures (DSV) found that decades of declining soil quality due to breeding and farming for yield, have left everyday fruits, vegetables, cereals, and bread with a ...