Are fresh and frozen vegetables better than canned?
Don’t knock canned foods. “If you rinse canned foods to remove added salt or sugar, they can be every bit as nutritious as fresh and frozen foods.” Says Lisa Giannetto, MD, assistant clinical professor in the Duke Executive health program at Duke University Medical Center. That’s because some produce at stores may have been sitting around for long enough to have lost some of its nutritive value. “If you get them fresh directly off the vine and the frozen is kept below freezing and not thawed during transit or storage, they are probably more nutritious than canned since canned usually has a lot of added sodium and it does sit in liquid,” says Crawely. Katz says that “canned vegetables are certainly better than no vegetables. Much of the nutrient value is retained in canned vegetables because they usually are processed right after harvest.” The really important thing about vegetables is to eat them, says Giannetto. “Rinse the salt out of canned foods and use them if their convenience mak
