All of us are making an effort to eat healthier by eating less packaged foods and substituting them with fresh foods and organic whenever possible. And with modern grocery stores we can get almost any vegetable or fruit anytime of the year. Apples in February and asparagus in September. How awesome is that! But, yes there’s a but, how fresh and how nutritious are these fruits and vegetables that we buy out of season? Controlled Atmospheric (CA) storage methods and global transportation have allowed us the pleasure of eating exotic food stuff and ‘out-of-season’ produce year-round, but that comes at a cost. Nutritionally, produce begins to lose its vitamin potency the longer it is stored. For long transportation and storage periods, produce is harvested before it is ripe, further reducing its nutritional value. The fresher the produce the fuller its nutritional offering. That being said we should all have a garden and eat only...
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