Americans typically eat only one-third of the recommended daily intake (three servings instead of nine) of fruits and vegetables. While a vegetable in any form is better than no vegetable at all, fresh is generally better than frozen. When vegetables are in-season, I recommend they be purchased fresh and ripe but \u201coff-season,\u201d frozen vegetables still give you a high concentration of nutrients. Choose packages marked with a USDA \u201cU.S. Fancy\u201d shield, which designates produce of the best size, shape and color; vegetables of this standard also tend to be more nutrient-rich than the lower grades \u201cU.S. No. 1\u201d or \u201cU.S. No. 2.\u201d Eat them soon after purchase: over many months, nutrients in frozen vegetables do inevitably degrade. Finally, steam or microwave rather than boil your produce to minimize the loss of water-soluble vitamins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Americans typically eat only one-third of the recommended daily intake (three servings instead of nine) of fruits and vegetables. While a vegetable in any form is better than no vegetable at all, fresh is generally better than frozen. When vegetables are in-season, I recommend they be purchased fresh and ripe but \u201coff-season,\u201d frozen vegetables still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[173,174,378,375,5,176,71],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meal-monday","tag-fresh-vegetables","tag-frozen-vegetables","tag-meal-monday","tag-nutrition","tag-nutrition-professional","tag-nutrition-tips","tag-vegetables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatesinnutrition.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatesinnutrition.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatesinnutrition.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatesinnutrition.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatesinnutrition.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/associatesinnutrition.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"https:\/\/associatesinnutrition.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatesinnutrition.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatesinnutrition.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatesinnutrition.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}