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We all need antioxidants to protect our health, but did you know you can find rich sources right here? 

We have varieties of vegetables that beat out blueberries in the antioxidants race. Read on:

• Purple carrots and potatoes contain anthocyanins which are powerful antioxidants that protect key cell components. 
• Anthocyanins neutralize the damaging effects of free radicals which disrupt the structure of other molecules leading to cellular damage, ageing, and various health problems.
• Anti-inflammatory properties of anthocyanins have also been observed; they neutralize enzymes that destroy connective tissue and they repair damaged proteins in blood vessel walls. 
• Finally, anthocyanins may prevent heart disease by slowing blood clotting and inhibiting the absorption of LDL, the bad cholesterol.

Ask for Russian Blue potatoes and Purple Haze carrots for a delicious win for your health. 

 You don’t have to be a plant scientist to know intuitively that that would be a bad idea. But why is it that very little of food value would grow in sand? The answer is, like all living things, vegetables need nutrition to grow. 

Poplar Bluff’s dark, rich organic soil is chock full of soil creatures that find, build and deliver life-sustaining nutrients to the plant. The plants trade the sugar they make for the minerals and nutrients delivered. The more nutrients, the more sugar the plant makes. Eventually, there is so much sugar that it is just stored in the veggie for later (yep, they hoard sweets). A well-fed root veggie doesn’t burn all that sugar, so that’s what creates the unbeatable flavour.

• Poplar Bluff Organics is ideally situated in the highest, coldest point of the Palliser Triangle, east of Calgary. It’s unrivalled the world over for cool-season root vegetables. 
• Our warm, sun-filled days followed by cool nights support the enzymatic process that sweetens vegetables. 
• Our growing conditions are second to none, but we take it one step further. Our carrots, parsnips and beets are exclusively cold-harvested to ensure the peak of sweetness is captured in every bite. 
• Buy local: please ask for Poplar Bluff Organics and Carrots by Cam at your organic grocery.

 The famous Kennebec potato is sought after by French fry aficionados everywhere. Problem is, they’ll go green within four  hours of light exposure, so they’re not sold in stores. 

Restaurant chefs seek out Kennebecs for their amazing properties, but you can bring them home, too. 

Just make an appointment at Poplar Bluff Organics to pick them up, or ask your organic grocery store to order them in for you. Keep them in a paper bag in the fridge until you’re ready to cook.  

• Healthy, high quality food is “live”, that’s why good potatoes will eventually sprout. 
• To keep our potatoes in optimum cooking condition, Poplar Bluff Organics uses aromatherapy to “sleep” the potatoes and inhibit sprouting. That’s why you might smell dill, caraway, mint, or cloves on the packaging. 
• In fact, you can use this aromatherapy hint in your own refrigerator to keep everything fresher. Why does it work? Cell-division is inhibited. 
• Just another example of a trusted organic solution for daily life. 

For unbeatable flavour and nutrition in potatoes, go for the gold, the heavy lifters in the nutrient category. There's a direct correlation between colour and nutrient density in vegetables. The darker the flesh, the more packed with nutrients; the more nutrient dense, the better the flavour. Golds have tons of carotenes, Vitamin A family, and lutein for eye health. Just be sure to serve with butter or oil, since carotene needs fat to be absorbed. Powerful stuff!