lab coat, can test the food you want to buy. YOU can determine QUALITY at the point of sale. YOU will gain back a little control over YOUR life. Please take readings immediately after getting the juice drop. If the juice dries on the prism, it will give a false reading. You must also be wary when testing dehydrated produce. Drying of a drop, or an entire fruit, creates a false high reading. The above statement always comes as a shock to a lecture audience. The typical consumer has been conditioned to expect fruits and vegetables to decompose. That is why I must repeat the above sentence: good food will NOT rot in storage. Please, please, check this claim yourself by testing and then storing HIGH-BRIX fruit or other produce in your refrigerator, or even on a windowsill. Once you depart your current thinking and enter the poor-food-rots / good-food-doesn?t paradigm, everything else in this book will make sense. BRIX=QUALITY CHARTS The basic Reams? chart that follows is still widely disseminated by Pike Agri-Lab in Maine. Dr. Reams' widow insists that before he died he spoke often of Mr. Pike's invaluable assistance in helping finalize Brix=Quality crop improvement methods. Ray Neilson, president of Circle-One in Brooksville, FL publishes the following chart, which I call simply, the Neilson Chart. Circle-One formulates and distributes a wide range of ecologically sound farm products designed to increase plant brix levels (as well as yields). Certain of his numbers reflect continuing research that he has