For quite a while now, I have felt that veggies and fruit taste fake, like they're really made out of cardboard or something. I don't eat fruit now, and the only veggies I eat are raw cultured organic veggies, and that is because I'm using them for a non-dairy probiotic to balance out a candida overgrowth. The reasons I believe produce today is somewhat worthless, or even dangerous, is due to soil depletion and genetic engineering. The articles below expand upon my assumptions. The genetic engineering article is about 4 years old, and I believe the GE campaign has grown exponentially since then.

http://www.natural-health-informati...eted-soils.html

http://www.mercola.com/2000/dec/3/ge_food.htm

Just two more reasons why plant food is not necessarily the life-giving panacea assumed by most.