Canned food just as good for you

A study from a well known source (Choice Magazine) in Australia has found that canned fruit and vegetables can be more nutritious than fresh.

The study tested cooked and uncooked, canned, frozen and week-old and fresh vegetables for the contents of certain nutrients.

All canned and frozen vegetables tested contained more or equal percentages of vitamins and anti-oxidants, with the exeption of broccoli. That doesn’t surprise me as I’ve tried frozen broccoli before and thought it tasted and smelt odd. Not scientific, I realise, but my own personal input ;)

It found that frozen english spinach was more nutritious that cooked spinach and canned tomatoes contain 5 times more lycopine which is believed to help prevent heart disease and prostate cancer.

When you think about it, fresh fruit and vegetables can be kept on supermarket shelves for weeks due to the chemicals they use to preserve them. So it’s not fresh and who knows what damage will be done to our bodies in the future. I’ve always felt that we are like test bunnies at the moment. Maybe in another 30+ years we will see the affects of consuming chemicals that we had no idea were in our so called fresh fruit and vegetables.

On the other hand, canned and frozen food is usually taken straight from the field and processed so the natural goodness is snapped in, so to speak .

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