Why does everyone resort ot frozen or tinned veg and not fresh? Fresh is the best?

Question

That 'ot' is meant to be 'to'. Typing skills have lowered a level. badly.

Answer 1

Frozen and canned are convenient.

Answer 2

Not everyone does that. I'll buy fresh sometimes but it works out more expensive because it goes off when it's not eaten, whereas tinned and frozen can be stored longer. Also, if I were to only ever buy fresh, I would either have to go into the town every day or pay ridiculously high prices for rubbish at the local shops. If I lived closer to a town or city centre, I might get more fresh but as I can only do my shopping about once or twice a month, it is difficult to always buy fresh. I am sure there are others in similar situations.

Answer 3

I am afraid that you have been misled. Fresh vegetables, in season, are superb and should be used whenever possible, however, there are vegetables and some fruit is actually better canned or frozen.

Two perfect examples of this are the humble pea and the tomato.

Unless you grow your own peas, fresh are a complete waste of time - from the moment they are picked they begin to lose their goodness, but if picked and frozen immediately they will retain their vitamins and their natural sweetness. Ditto tomatoes - so many commercial growers are still not growing them for flavour and those that do can only sell them locally as they will not survive a long journey - so unless you are lucky enough to have a local supplier you are far better off with a good quality tinned variety.

Answer 4

Maybe you're typing skills have gone down because you're eating too many fresh vegetables......:)

Fresh are, of course, best; but not everyone wants to deal with them as far as cleaning, cooking, peeling, etc. For the person who's not real into spending a whole lot of time dealing with food, or for the person who doesn't like having to wash dirt off stuff they're going to cook, frozen is a healthy alternative.

Another thing is fresh doesn't keep in the refrigerator. You buy it, cook some ot it, and the rest goes bad and you have to throw it out. Keeping canned or frozen vegetables in the house means you always at least have those vegetables. They keep for ages, cook easily, and frozen are quite good. You can stock up, and they're always there whenever you need them.

Finally, many children prefer, say, canned peas to frozen ones; so if you can buy the canned peas or lima beans in order to get a child to eat them that's another reason. They do have them with no added salt if you look, and they do tend to be more easy to digest.

Answer 5

Actually frozen vegetables may have more nutrients according to some studies, since they are flash frozen very quickly after being picked this locks in the nutrients at their peak. Once frozen the nutrients deteriorate very slowly, except for vitamin C.

Fresh vegetables however lose their nutrients rapidly as they are transported to market days away from their picking site. Then the produce continues to sit until you buy it, then continues to wait until you consume it. All the time it's freshness and nutrients deteriorating.

I do agree about canned veggies though. Not a lot of reason to stick with those. The technology was a boon to Napoleon's army, but we have had better inventions since then. Bird's Eye really brought about the revolution with the freezer in the market and made produce available year round, even before transit made global produce a possibility.

Answer 6

I have no idea, I couldn't stop laughing when I saw tinned potatoes, why would you ever need tinned potatoes how hard is it to go to the shop and buy fresh, some tinned fruit is ok I prefer tinned pineapple in it's own juice and not fresh, but that is it, I tend to stay away from the tinned bit you get everything curry !! curry in a tin how can that be, all day breakfast in a tin What!!

nonsence food, fresh and cooking from scratch is the way forward

Answer 7

Yes, fresh is the best, but sometimes you can't get fresh, for instance in the winter here. No farm stands in the winter. Also, a person may not have enough storage. Eventually, if you want to preserve fresh vegetables, you wind up freezing them anyway. Even fresh frozen is better than the frozen stuff in plastic bags.

Answer 8

Frozen is pretty good - a LOT
better than canned. I just can't always
take time to clean, wash, trim, chop,
dice all the fresh stuff. Lazy, I guess.

Green beans, however, are my latest
discovery in the fresh line.
I used to get fresh green beans
and put them in a pot after snapping
off both ends.
Then I would add bacon, or ham
hocks, or some kind of smoked
pork and then boil them till they
fell apart.

Now I take the fresh green beans
snap off only the stem end, (actually,
now I just line them up and cut
them off) and put them in a hot
skillet with very little olive oil...
cook just till tender but still crispy.
It is like discovering a whole new
vegetable. Just fantastic.

Answer 9

Convenience, I suppose. Personally, I wouldn't know, as I tend to use fresh veg. where possible! However, it has been proved that tinned tomatoes have a higher concentration of vitamin C (I think!) than fresh - something to do with the cooking process, so there are some health advantages to some (but not all) tinned foods.

Answer 10

In season, fresh vegetables are best, especially from my own garden. Out of season, fresh fruits and veggies can be too expensive or were shipped before they were ripened and you don't get the nutrition you should and they taste bad. In that case I settle for the frozen ( I try to avoid tinned ). Most people consider price or convenience when they buy frozen or tinned.

Answer 11

I only shop once a week. I don't have a car and the local bus has stopped it's service to my area.
A lot of fresh veg is not fresh after a few days, so I buy frozen for near the end of the week.
I agree fresh is best but gone are the days of the local greengrocer and he delivered it to your door.
We all want cheaper food and the greengrocer couldn't compete with the supermarkets so most people get it for convenience.