Just because an item has an organic label, that doesn’t make it healthier, even if you are paying more for it. “People automatically correlate organic with healthier food,” says CalorieCount.com’s Director of Nutrition, Rachel Berman. “They see organic and think it has to be healthier for me and more nutritious but there’s a lot of mixed reviews.” She says some consumers mistakenly assume organic labels designate that a product is more nutrient dense, but a label isn’t the biggest indicator of its nutrient value. An organic apple will be void of many chemicals, but it’s the soil a food is [...]

