How to Select Vegetables & Fruits Frozen

Eating foods such as frozen vegetables and fruits really does not matter. However, there are several ways to consider when choosing frozen food.

 

Actually, frozen vegetables and fruits more nutritious and fresh. That's because the nutrients they contain is still very incomplete because the finished plucked directly frozen, as quoted from realsimple.

Vegetables and fresh fruits which will be frozen are usually selected from a really nice and ripe, when nutrients are in the highest peak. The initial stage is memblansir freeze vegetables (boiled briefly with boiling water) or steam to kill bacteria and prevent loss of enzyme because many water-soluble vitamins such as vitamin C and vitamin B. The process of freezing will make the important nutrients are locked properly, as quoted from detikfood.


Here's how to choose vegetables and fruits frozen right:

1. Vegetable

Select: Make sure that no lumps of frozen vegetables. According to Sarah Krieger, a registered dietitian in St. Petersburg, Fla., and spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association, lumps in vegetables is a sign that they had melted and frozen again.

Avoid: mixed vegetables with cheese sauce, garlic or with pasta and rice. Plain frozen broccoli contains 30 calories, 20 milligrams sodium and no fat. But when combined with cheese sauce, calories contained will rise to two-fold and sodium to 600 milligrams.

2. Fruit

Choose: Fruit without other content such as sauce or artificial sweeteners. Enter the fruit into a plastic bag that can be opened and closed, to prevent ice crystals. Ice crystals can menghambarkan fruit flavor and reduce nutrient.

Avoid: Fruit that is packaged with other content. Frozen strawberries with syrup contains 17 teaspoons of sugar but still not sweet.

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