[saurik]

If my food isn't nutritious I either wither away or am forced to eat more food, which comes with more calories. So, no: it seems like it is better to make do with seasonal foods than to live in a world where I can technically experience a tomato but... is it really a tomato if it just tastes like a tomato but otherwise confers none of the value of a tomato? (If you are saying the alternative is NO food, then sure; but I think the problem is that it is difficult to even get reasonable fruits and vegetables that are in season even if you live in a place where they can be grown as no one bothers to grow them anymore.)

[_aavaa_]

I might even settle for tasting like a tomato. But what I usually get from a supermarket doesn’t even do that.

[nyokodo]

> If my food isn't nutritious I either wither away or am forced to eat more food

Less nutrition doesn’t mean no nutrition. The vegetables are still plenty nutritious.

[giantg2]

I believe the argument they are making is that if the vegetable contains less magnesium, then you have to eat more of it to satisfy that dietary requirement (or your body's craving for it). So the vegetable still has a lot of the other macronutrients but now you have to eat "too many" of the macronutrients to satisfy your micronutrient needs.

[thematrixturtle]

In much of the world, "seasonal produce" in winter means essentially nothing fresh: everything had to be preserved from the earlier harvest, and the available methods of preservation were far more destructive (dry, pickle, etc) than today's frozen or canned options, never mind a cool chain than can effortlessly bring you a tropical banana for Christmas in Canada.