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RE: Hydroponics Revolutionizing How We Grow
The key is in the nutrients, if not enough are added to the system the food will have less value. Also if artificial nutrients are added... Well artificial nutrition is what you get. A suggestion for a follow up article maybe?
@kyusho - You're not adding artificial nutrients in hydroponics. You are adding synthetic nutrients, maybe they are man-made, but they still have the same chemical makeup of what would be found in nature. As long as the plant receives the nutrients it would normally uptake from traditional soil feeds, the end result is the same whether grown in soil or hydro. Frequently people will say tomatoes purchased in the winter (greenhouse grown) don't taste as good as those hand-picked from your garden during the summer and also don't have the nutritional make-up. This is only true because commercial greenhouses are for-profit entities. Being profit driven they choose to only feed plants a basic N-P-K formula which often lacks micronutrients and sugars the plant would have normal access to. These cheap nutrients degrade taste and nutritional content.