The Nutrients for Life Foundation is currently funding research at Texas A&M University to further understand how fertilizer can be used to improve the nutritional content of fruits and vegetables.

To do this, Dr. Stephen King and his team of graduate students are measuring the impact different levels of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium have on the lutein content in spinach and lycopene content in tomatoes and watermelon.

If, as predicted, a correlation between fertilizer and healthier foods is established, imagine the impact. An increasingly health-conscious public will, quite literally, eat up this kind of information, and for the first time, will finally regard fertilizers for what they truly are...nutritious — for both plants and, in turn, human beings.