Organic Food Is Healthier Confirms New Analysis

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33. All other points aside, if flavenoids are beneficial, they are beneficial.

I am not stating that there is rock solid evidence that flavenoids are beneficial. But one of the linked articles seems to have found compelling evidence of such, and I am referring to the nature of your refutation of that article. Your implication seems to be that since the benefit being discussed is cardiovascular risk rather than cancer, the article is outside the subject area of this discussion. However that makes no sense; flavenoids are one of the compounds mentioned in the original news article. No claim is made as to the nature of the health benefit that they may provide.

In your first post (I believe), *you* referenced a link to antioxidant substances and cancer benefits--or rather the lack thereof, but that does not preclude other health benefits, nor does it constrain the ability of others to point out evidence for those benefits. As such, I'm not sure why you added to your otherwise seemingly logical illumination of the above studies' limitations, the irrelevant point that one of the studies referenced addressed cardiovascular risk rather than cancer risk. No one asserted that effects on cancer risks were the only effects being discussed, and as I recall cardiovascular problems cause more deaths than cancers do. If flavenoids can be shown to have a positive effect on cardiovascular risk, and if flavenoids are more prevalent in certain organic foods, then there public health case to be made for their consumption.