Produce, Fresh Fruits &

Vegetables, Organic

Produce too!

Here on the North Side of Chicago - the windy city - staff at Lincoln Park Market are always hard at work ensuring we continuously provide as many different types of healthy and fresh produce for our neighbors as we can. Whether you're concerned about your body, the health of your family, or the environment, with Lincoln Park Market as your neighborhood market, you can rest easy knowing we are working diligently day in and day out to provide you with the finest array possible for your daily intake.

While Lincoln Park Market has an extensive selection of organics and other "year-round" produce - you can look forward to the seasonal variety: in summer, the local organic farmers deliver juicy, plump peaches and succulent strawberries, in the fall, crisp, tart apples and seasonal squash are showcased. Organic fruits and vegetables are so much tastier then the chemical-laden conventionally grown produce, once you've tried them, you may find it hard to eat anything but organic!

Here in the Midwest, we have access to some of the finest growing soils on the planet and we take advantage of it on a daily basis by coordinating with the great suppliers down at the Chicago Produce Market to bring you a great selection - each and every day. Living in the windy city neighborhoods of Chicago provides lots of reason to maintain a healthy and hearty balance of high quality nutritional intake, we can provide whatever your daily needs require.

As you probably are aware, there's a new plot underway to sterilize your food and destroy the nutritional value of fresh produce. The players in this plot are the usual suspects: The USDA (which backed the "raw" almond sterilization rules now in effect in California) and the American Chemical Society -- a pro-chemical group that represents the interests of industrial chemical manufacturers. The latest push comes from USDA researchers who conducted a study to see which method more effectively killed bacteria on leafy green vegetables like spinach. Nothing can be better than individual knowingness when it comes to the way we treat our beloved planet and the health of our own bodies, so we too are involved in this battle to ensure ourselves and the next generations can continue to enjoy the fruits of the earth, we each must do our parts when it comes to being educated and involved in the fights that continue to present themselves as worthy of our time.

To conduct the study mentioned above, they bathed the spinach in a solution contaminated with various bacteria. Then, they tried to remove the bacteria using three methods: Washing, chemical spraying and irradiation. Not surprisingly, only the irradiation killed nearly 100 percent of the bacterial colonies. That's because radiation sterilizes both the bacteria and the vegetable leaves, effectively killing the plant and destroying much of its nutritional value while it kills the bacteria. What a surprise! The USDA claims this to be a huge success but by using radiation on all fresh produce, they claim, the number of food-borne illness outbreaks that happen each year could be substantially reduced. It all makes sense until you realize that by destroying the nutritional value of all fresh produce sold in the country, an irradiation policy would greatly increase the number of people killed by infections and chronic diseases that are prevented by the natural medicines found in fresh produce!

Why fresh, living produce helps prevent sickness

The USDA, you see, at this point in time has zero recognition of the difference between living produce and dead produce. To uneducated government bureaucrats, pasteurized or irradiated vegetable juice is identical to fresh, raw, living vegetable juice. They believe this because they've never been taught about the phytonutrients, digestive enzymes and life force properties that are found in fresh foods, but that are destroyed through heat or irradiation. The USDA it seems is operating out of extreme ignorance when it comes to food and nutrition.

Even a simple leaf of spinach contains hundreds of natural medicines -- phytonutrients that help prevent cancer, eye diseases, nervous system disorders, heart disease and much more. Every living vegetable is a powerhouse of disease-fighting medicine: Broccoli prevents cancer, beet greens cleanse the liver, cilantro removes heavy metals, celery prevents cancer, berries prevent heart disease and dark leafy greens help prevent over a dozen serious health conditions while boosting immune function and helping prevent other infections. But when you subject these fruits and vegetables to enough radiation to kill 99.9% of the pathogens that may be hitching a ride, you also destroy many of the phytonutrients responsible for these tremendous health benefits! So again, we at Lincoln Park Market are working to supply the products of the good people providing more organic products to your kitchens. If we all continue to get further educated and put our resources towards healthier suppliers - the others will be forced to follow - even the good intentioned people within our governments.