We All Know Fresh Is Better

But just what qualifies as fresh, at least when it comes to the vegetables that you place on your table?

There is no argument, picking your vegetables straight from your own garden and preparing them within a couple of hours, it just doesn’t get any freasher than that. Unfortunately most of you don’t have either the land or the time to plant your own garden or for that matter access to someome else’s garden.

It may surprise you to learn that if none of the above options are avaliable to you, frozen vegetables may be your best choice. Most of your vegetables in your groceries freezer section are processed shortly after they are harvested so therefore they retain most of their nutrients. This is if the vegetables have not been thawed and then refrozen.

Quality can vary with the raw vegetables in the produce section. There is no way of knowing the length of time between the time the vegetables are picked and they reach your grocer’s stand, how they are stored or the conditions under which they are displayed.

As for canned vegetables, they lose a lot of their nutriients through the heat used in the canning process and many brands are high in sodium. 

Category: Nutrition