Vegetables May Be New Calcium Providers

More on Frankenfoods.

If you thought vegetables were expensive now, wait until they price these designer veggies.

"'The daily requirement for calcium is 1,000 milligrams, and a 100 gram serving of these carrots provides only 60 milligrams, about 42 percent of which is absorbable,' he noted. 'A person could not eat enough of them to get the daily requirement.'

But if vegetables and fruits could be bred to contain more calcium, then a diet that includes a variety of these produce might come closer to providing necessary calcium, Morris said."

As for the calcium, let's do the math.

Assuming all veggies will be like these Supercarrots, then you will absorb about 25 mg of calcium per 100 grams of vegetable.

To absorb 1000 mg daily, you only need to eat 4000 grams of vegetables.

There are 454 grams in a pound.

You only have to eat 8.8 pounds of Superveggies per day to get your daily calcium requirements.

If they breed these mutants to contain more calcium, you might only have to eat 4 or 5 pounds.

Daily.

Seems efficient, sensible and cost-effective to me.

Not.