I started to buy organic food a couple of months ago. I order online and in my city there are 3 certified organic stores which sell groceries online. I notice that the fruit from one of these tastes starkly better than that from the other two. I mostly order apples, bananas, guavas and sweet lime, and all these taste more intense and sweet when I order from the first store as compared to the other two.

How do I understand this? I am wondering if this means that the fruit from the first store is truly organic, or more organic, as compared to others. Even though I have seen the certificates of all three, I don't think merely having a certificate makes things fool-proof, especially in this country (India).

At the same time, I also wonder if taste could be a function of climate or freshness. These stores get there fruit from different places in the country.

Interestingly, I don't see much difference in vegetables from the three stores so far, although I haven't really ordered from all three to much of an extant, so it might be premature to say.

What do you all think?

Stores buy foods from produce distributors. Each produce distributor will have its set of preferred farmers and farms. The store that has food you like either has a better produce distributor, or perhaps the store's buyer is more on the ball, in that they are more picky about the foods they choose.

Prana Wrote:
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> Stores buy foods from produce distributors. Each
> produce distributor will have its set of preferred
> farmers and farms. The store that has food you
> like either has a better produce distributor, or
> perhaps the store's buyer is more on the ball, in
> that they are more picky about the foods they
> choose.

By 'better' do you mean they are closer to an organic way of agriculture, or do you mean better in another way?

Prana answered your question, I agree

The quality and flavor of food depends on the quality of the soil. You could have a thousand "organic" farmers all growing ONE kind of food and the difference will be
noticeable taste wise due to how mineral rich their soil is. Organic just means that there are no pesticides.. that's all.