Are you someone who is prone to buying fresh vegetables at the
start of the week, and three to five days later they are still
sitting in the refrigerator waiting to be used? If this sounds
like you, you may be someone who would benefit from purchasing
frozen vegetables to get more bang for your buck nutritionally
speaking. Fresh vegetables are great, don’t get me wrong, but in
the course of being picked and transported to the supermarket
coupled with sitting in the fridge for a few days, they begin to
lose their nutritional value. A recent report showed that up to
45 percent of nutrients may be lost in fresh vegetables before
they are consumed, and that in some cases it may take up to two
weeks from the time they are picked to reach our tables (1)!
Frozen vegetables are picked when they are at their ripest, and
that is when fruits and vegetables typically carry the most
nutritional value. From there they are blanched in water to kill
any bacteria, sealed and immediately frozen. A good rule of
thumb is to eat