What is the different between wild and commercial produce?

Can you make the blueberry research paper you talked about available for download or let us know how we can access it? I have purchased the Vital Choice blueberries and the Cascadian Farm blueberries and see and taste a difference. I would like to know more about the nutritional difference and what test methods are used to identify and quantify them.

Similarly, you mentioned, I believe, that once an orange has been picked it immediately loses about half the nutrients in a very short time. Add to that the shipping times, the fact that the fruit has been picked unripe, and the fact that even the organic fruit is harvested in less than optimal conditions in most cases…it would be interesting to see the difference from a well nourished orange tree right after picking (from my backyard) and an organic orange I get from the global distributors. I would like to apply the same measurement techniques used in the blueberry study if possible at my local university to run some tests. It seems that we would be overlaying a power curve or exponential curve for decay rate from date of picked to eating with a statistical “curve” of nutrient loss in growing methods, with a degradation of nutrients between peeling/cutting and eating time, and possibly several other losses.