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Although conventionally grown oranges are typically twice as large as their organic counterparts, the organic ones contain 30 percent more vitamin C. While you might expect to reap better health benefits from the larger oranges, all you're really getting is more-water.
Assisted by his undergraduate students in the spring of 2002, Theo Clark, PhD--then a visiting chemistry professor at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri--analyzed both types of fruit. "The orange is the traditional source of vitamin C, and it's highly commercialized," ...