Ashley

This month I am going to talk about the nutrients in cooked/canned fruits and vegetables. Many people are under the impression that these are low quality foods and that they have lost all their nutrients due to the cooking process and or canning process. In one statement, this is just simply not true. In fact, did you know that canned fruits and vegetables can be just as nutritious, if not more than their fresh counterparts? Please refer back to my blog here to read more. Now back to cooking. Again most people think eating raw food is the best, I hear all the time that the enzymes are not lost and they are “alive”; I hear that nutrients are killed while they are cooked, among other things. Continue reading →