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Vegetables are absolutely delicious when fresh and cooked properly however many children grow up eating overcooked vegetables that come from a freezerburned bag

Vegetables are absolutely delicious when fresh and cooked properly however many children grow up eating overcooked vegetables that come from a freezerburned bag that has been sitting in the freezer for months or from similarly aged cans. So yes, it is definitely partially due to poor cooking but it also can come from generally low quality of vegetables. This is unfortunately very common in the US. The same unfortunately is applicable to fish for a lot of people.

sandGorgon 9y ago
Not always. The whole system of Indian cooking exists to deliver dishes that can utilise non-fresh or dried ingredients and stabilize them for long hours in Indian summer conditions. That is why our system of cooking revolves around spices which both disguise the fact that the vegetables are not fresh as well as act as natural preservatives. The best cuisine to utilise frozen vegetables is Indian - I do not know of any other cuisine that will pass them off as edible.
- maxerickson 9y ago
  There are a fair number of vegetables where frozen are better than all but the best fresh vegetables. Broccoli, beans, stuff like that. They are picked closer to the ideal time and don't suffer from the shipping time. And then they aren't cooked like canned vegetables. And of course there are lots of vegetables that don't take freezing well and nothing will stand up to an excessive number of defrost cycles. But frozen vegetable doesn't automatically mean bad.