🍓🍊🥑🥒🍋🍅🥬🍉 Lets talk about eating seasonally. You all know how much I love shopping at the farmer’s market. I love supporting local farmers and eating the freshest produce, but what I haven’t talked to you guys about is the heightened nutritional value of shopping at the farmer’s market. Yup, that’s right. Shopping at the farmer’s market is better for your health.
When you shop at the farmer’s market you’re only buying in season produce. You’re buying from smaller farmers that aren’t commercialized which means no greenhouses. This means that the produce you’re getting is whatever can be grown in the current season you’re experiencing. It’s grown in nutrient rich soil these farmers work so hard to create and maintain. This produce is then harvested at peak ripeness, which is also when it has its highest nutritional value and sole to you the same to next day. Commercialized produce is picked early in order for it to ripen as it ships all over the world causing a loss of nutrients. Ever wonder why the smoothie you made with frozen fruit tastes better than a smoothie you made with “fresh” fruit from the supermarket? I have the answer…frozen fruit is picked at peak ripeness and then frozen on the spot. This means the nutrients are preserved in the fruit while it’s frozen! Frozen fruit and veggies are able to be picked at peak ripeness because there is no worry about reopening as it ships. Once the fruit and veggies are frozen everything is kept in place, nutrients & ripeness. Now, if you’re wondering if frozen fruit and veggie are “healthier” then fresh from the supermarket the answer is complicated. Overall, no. But if you’re looking to buy more nutritious food, my answer is yes. Frozen produce is not only more nutritious but less expensive. So go ahead, buy the frozen organic produce for the same price as the regular “fresh” produce at the supermarket and your body will thank you later. For more tips & tricks like this follow me on Instagram @sophieinthecity_
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