With so many varieties and types of vegetables that we come across in supermarkets, choosing and preparing them at home can be very tiring. Even the recent high costs make people avoid fresh vegetables, which are much more expensive than frozen ones.
Which have more nutrients: fresh vegetables or frozen vegetables?
And study recently compared fresh and frozen vegetables, and experts found no real differences in the content of nutrients. The study also showed that fresh vegetables kept much worse than frozen ones after 5 days in the refrigerator. It has been proven that fresh vegetables after being refrigerated for too long, they lose what nutrients they have.
Another study showed that the difference in nutrients could also depend on the products we buy. There are these little differences between the two types of vegetables that are not visible to the naked eye.
Why does fresh produce lose nutrients?
The three factors that lead to nutrient loss are heat, oxygen and lumina. Once picked, vegetables lose nutrients and vitamins, such as vitamin C. The nutritional quality of the products is lost when the respiration process begins, when the vegetables begin to “give off” heat and lose water from the composition.
We can conclude that frozen products have as many nutrients (if not more) as fresh ones. To preserve the nutrients of vegetables, but also of fruits, we must store them properly and consume them as quickly as possible. It is up to us to choose the vegetables and how we choose to prepare them to be as tasty as possible, to preserve their taste and to have a rich meal.
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2023-07-17 18:35:56
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