Fresh, Frozen Or Canned Vegetables, Which Is Best?
30 11 2007Fresh is best, or is it?
I recently found an interesting website from Australia that compares the nutrient value of frozen, canned and fresh vegetables. They went to the Coles and Woolworths stores and bought the best fresh vegetables, and the top selling frozen and canned brands. The test covered the following vegetables - corn, green beans, carrots, spinach, broccoli and tomatoes. The fresh and frozen vegetables were steamed for 10 minutes and the canned was heated before testing. They tested for Vitamin C, beta-carotene and lycopene (tomatoes only). The tomatoes were only tested for canned and fresh.
The results are all over the place. Frozen was best for green beans, and spinach. Corn was a toss up with convience perhaps the deciding factor. Carrots all three had about the same level of vitamin C but fresh and canned were the clear winners for beta-carotene. That leaves broccoli were fresh was the clear winner with frozen having 92% less vitamin C then fresh.
This is only one small sample test done in Australia and is cannot be consider conclusive. The results are interesting and I would like to see more testing for the same nutrients and more.
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