Yes please-y freezy!
Joslyn | Sep 13, 2009 | Comments 0
Turn your nose up no more at frozen vegetables. Embrace peas from your freezer and enjoy their nutrient-packed loveliness!! If you’re a vegetable snob and only insist on filling your basket with fresh produce before tootling off on your bicycle then think again. The veggies in your basket may have less nutrients than those from the freezer in the supermarket.
Yes I know, there is something very retro about skipping along with veggies peeking out of the top of a woven basket, ’tis a romantic idea no? But scientists at the Centre for Food Innovation at Sheffield Hallam University say that we need to get rid of the notion that frozen means less quality. Research shows, that 77% of vitamin C in a green bean is lost during seven days of storage. There is also evidence that cooked frozen green peas contain higher levels of beta-carotene, than cooked fresh peas – oops, did I just toss my retro basket aside in favour of a supermarket trolley?!
Those in the know say that harvest-to-freeze methods ensure that we lose very little nutrient density from frozen-to-be veggies, as opposed to some ‘fresh’ produce that can be stored for up to a month via the chain of producers, wholesalers and retailers. Never mind the use-by date, what about the picked-by date?
Anyway, I didn’t really get rid of my woven basket, I merely implied that I shan’t turn away when passing by the frozen food section in the supermarket and neither should you. Of course I have been flirting with the ideas of growing my own at some point – how fabulously retro!!
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