05/26/2021
A friend asked me recently, "what is better for you, fresh or frozen fruit?"
She may have expected a short, one work answer, but there is a little more to it.
When you freeze fruits and vegetables, they loose some nutrients.
But, fresh produce that has to travel fare before reaching your grocery store, is often picked before it is ripe, and then allowed to ripen on the truck.
Where produce that is grown to be frozen, it can ripen on the plant as it doesn't have long travel times.
Foods ripened on the plant have a lot more nutrients, than ones that ripen on a truck.
So fresh isn't necessarily better.
Even with loosing some nutrients during freezing, frozen foods start out with more.
So which should you choose?
Take the stress out of it!
Mix things up to get variety.
Do some fresh, some frozen.
In the next 2 weeks, we'll talk more about choosing good produce with the Dirty Dozen and the Clean 15.
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