I recently read about a Nutraceutical, where a plant was provided with supplemental minerals to raise mineral content and overal nutrition of this particular plant. This is exactly my kind of thing. One definition is as follows:

""Food, or parts of food, that provide medical or health benefits, including the prevention and treatment of disease."
Dr. Stephen DeFelice, Foundation for Innovation in Medicine


Now after looking that up, I feel a little bit of a let down, but I have to give some credit for someone thinking new and different. (I feel a let down because the webpage with the definition mentions transgenic organisms used as nutraceuticals, sounding a little too close to pharma....)

I would love to know if there is a better word and definition for foods raised for ultimate nutrition, but still natural, organic and wholesome. Not necessarily for a specific diagnosis or treatment. I just think that there has to be food raised with a little extra 'magic', for a lack of a better word!

I experimented with raising foods with extra minerals, and I really like the improved vitality, and taste. I finally tested this, because one variety I used as a charatais melon. I finally tested a 'regular' melon and for waterever reason, it was very dull and insipid by comparison. It was 'organic' also, which really surprised me. So, I don't know what to call this new concept, but its kind of beyond organic, and natural, but still within its boundaries.

Huh, I thought "nutraceutical" was traditionally applied to naturally derived supplements and was used to distinguish things like food-based vitamin tablets and isolated cofactor capsules from synthetic pharmaceuticals, Mislu. I suppose the practice of mineral addition to growing medium should have the word "mineral" in it. Mineral-mediated farming, maybe, or agricultural mineral mediation? They'd make easy-to-remember acronyms

When I add Azomite to my growing medium for wheatgrass, it's like a totally different product from azomite-free, so I hope this is a practice that gets legs.

Tamukha,
Wow, azomite sounds very special. How is the wheatgrass with azomite different? Do you grow anything else in azomite? I am growing a species of opuntia and experimenting with added minerals. It grows so easily, and its rather popular now as a supplement for health reasons. The other is dandelion, and teff.

You sound like a much more capable gardener than I, Mislu! When I add Azomite to the growing medium for wheatgrass, the grass ends up tasting sweet and pleasant, and grows more hardily, it seems to me.

I know little about gardening really, but can you add kelp and other seaweeds to soil. Im sure ive heard it before, if it worked it would add a large spectrum of trace and ultra trace minerals.

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My African violets are really loving the kelp I add to their water, as long as I don't overwater them, which is a tendency of mine

well, limited time and space takes its toll on my potential as a gardener.