You stock up on fresh veggies on Sunday for your week of healthy eating.
Result: Come Thursday or Friday, nutrients have done a vanishing act.
Some nutrients begin deteriorating in a fresh fruit or vegetable as soon as it’s harvested. In a week, green beans lose 77% of their vitamin C, spinach loses 50% of its folate, and prechopped cantaloupe, mango, and strawberry pieces lose 10% to 15% of their carotenoids.
What to do: It’s less convenient, but buy fresh produce a few times a week. Also, shop smart: Ask the produce manager which veggies are freshest. And lean on locally grown, which has a shorter transit time, or frozen off-season vegetables, which are flash-frozen within hours of harvesting, sometimes right in the field.
Yep. Depending on WHERE you get them, you also have to wonder how long it's been between the point that something was picked & you bought it. By the time you buy it, no telling how much nutrition those "fresh" veggies have lost.
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- MamaMandee
on Jan. 25, 2013 at 7:52 PM