Answer:
The ones that apply are: A) <em>Organic foods are free of all pesticides</em>, C) <em>Most food advertising is for processed foods and packaged foods</em>, and D) <em>Organic foods have higher levels of nutrients than their conventional counterparts.</em>
Explanation:
A) Organic food is cultivated with no use of pesticides, fertilizers or herbicides. These products came from ecological agriculture practices, a production system that uses techniques and methods that are respectful of nature. These practices have very strict rules about the use of chemical substances.
B) All free-range animals do not always have unlimited access to the outdoors. It depends on the producers and their criteria. Some producers let their animals spend most of their life and time outdoors and they are only kept indoors when climatic conditions or other situations occur to make the animal be confined for a short time. Other producers keep their animals indoor, letting them out for a few hours or minutes a day.
C) Most food advertising is for processed foods and packaged foods. Most of the advertisements that we watch on tv, in general, refer to processed food, especially of sweet nature or salted snacks. Also others that look like natural food, but are processed such as yogurts, flavored milk, juices, among others. Only a few advertisements are focus on real food such as meat, fruit in its natural state, or vegetables.
D) Organic foods have higher levels of nutrients than their conventional counterparts. Organic food has higher levels of nutrients, carbohydrates, antioxidant compounds, minerals such as iron, magnesium, or phosphorus. On the other hand, the concentration of proteins, amino acids, and nitrogen is lower in organic food because the organic compost used to fertilize leaves lower amounts of available nitrogen than chemical fertilizers used in conventional productions.
E) The term "natural" on food labels refers to food with no artificial ingredients or conservators added, no artificial colors and hardly processed. Natural food is the one that looks like its original state. This does not mean that these foods are organic. Natural food may or may not be organic.
