Phytochemical richness improves animal health.

Phytochemicals are chemical compounds produced by plants, usually to help them thrive or to thwart competitors, predators or pathogens, but they can be important nutrients for grazing animals. Increasing plant diversity decreases vasodilation in the cattle and helps neutralize toxins including endophytes. The pastured beef and a few homegrown vegetables, fruits and herbs and forbs I eat every day represent hundreds and maybe thousands of different phytochemical compounds. [Extracted from the article]