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Agree with you on everything, except frozen foods. I am in my mid 30s. I like to cook and try to eat healthy. I have read at many places on the internet that fr
by reacharavindh 5y ago
Agree with you on everything, except frozen foods. I am in my mid 30s. I like to cook and try to eat healthy. I have read at many places on the internet that frozen vegetables in some occasions are healthier than the ones I can at the supermarket- because they are flash frozen, retaining most nutritional value vegetables stay out in shipping and shelves far too long losing nutritional value. Also that they tend to be picked before their time to accommodate for shipping and shelving while frozen vegetables are picked ripe for freezing.
Frozen processed foods like pizzas, ready to eat foods loaded with preservatives are bad as one can imagine.
It was counterintuitive to me that frozen veggies can be better than fresh looking ones from supermarket. Same goes with tomatoes from supermarket shelves versus tomatoes in a tin - apparently the tin ones have better nutrients because they were more ripe when they went into the tin, while supermarket tomatoes were picked well before they were ripe.
- bkandel 5y agoI read that as "frozen foods that are high in fat and salt".
- czbond 5y agoYour interpretation is what I meant. Above poster does have a point about vegetables frozen being more healthy.
- datavirtue 5y agoI was eating frozen pizzas quite regularly in my twenties and thirties. At 32 I was diagnosed with pre-hypertension. The doctor was suggesting pills. I went home and evaluated my sodium intake. Those pizzas are insane with the sodium. I stopped eating them and haven't had one since. Shortly after, my blood pressure went back to normal/good levels. Ten years later I'm still healthy...and eating much better than I did when I was younger.
- dharmab 5y agoPizza can be a downward spiral- huge amount of carbs, salt and cheese in a single slice, and most people eat multiple slices. https://xkcd.com/1616/ https://xkcd.com/1616/
- dharmab 5y agoIt depends on how you prepare the food too- many type of vegetables have different nutrition content when eaten raw rather than cooked.
- reacharavindh 5y agoI know this is another information rabbit hole. But, I’d love to know what happens to nutrients with various forms of cooking and combinations with various cooking elements like salt, pepper, chillies, turmeric, cumin etc. A purely scientific approach to cooking that experiments to improve commonly used recipes for nutritional value would be amazing.