A man with a crate filled with a variety of vegetables that he harvested from the garden

Help Me Understand – What does organic mean?

Kristy Heilman

It’s happened to me more than once: I’m at the grocery store looking at produce, and one says it’s organic, the other doesn’t. But I’m left wondering, What’s the difference? Is one really better for me than the other? So I’m asking my friend, Nutritionist Kara Swanson, to help me understand: what exactly does organic mean?