Food in Ecuador Healthy But Is It Really?

Since just after I moved to Quito in 2013, whenever I have been in the city, I like to buy my produce at the all-day-Monday América market that I mentioned on this thread.  Wholesaler/growers have outdoor booths there over an area of hundreds of square yards.

I buy most of my produce from Tía and her friends and family.  She told me that the family operates a farm outside Quito and they come into town early Monday morning and man their booth till 9 p.m.  The rest of the week, so far as I know, they are tending the farm.

On recent Mondays, I have been swimming at the Matovelle pool starting around 6 p.m. and then walking down Calle Venezuela the few blocks to the market.  I buy fruits and vegetables there;  next someone from Tía's clan assists me to the 'calle' less than 30 yards away and we put the mercancías in the trunk of the first taxi we can hail.  Then for me it's back to my condo complex, where the taxi driver and I unload the produce onto a USA-style shopping cart kept at the building's entrance, which cart I then wheel to my condo's door.

My Chevy is scheduled to be 'boosted' tomorrow by the Chevy dealership (the battery died, of course, during my extended stay in the USA).  So on future Mondays I may drive the car to the weekly market and bring my purchases home myself.

As to the quality of the fruits and veggies, I generally love it.  Is the produce truly organic?  I haven't visited the farm and I can't vouch for exactly how everything is grown.

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