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Adding Variety To Your Diet With Frozen Foods
As seen on BCTV February 15/00
During the winter months, it is easy to tire of the same, limited produce selection. This is a good time of year to recognize the many options in the frozen food section which can add variety to your diet. Frozen fruit such as raspberries, strawberries, blueberries or fruit combinations such as melons or peaches with berries are a welcome addition to a fruit salad to break the winter routine of apples, oranges and bananas. Simply select frozen fruit with no added sugar.
Frozen vegetables, either the basic ones like peas, corn or beans or the more exotic combinations like Italian vegetable mix or Oriental Stir-fry mix can also add variety and break the routine of carrots and broccoli. Frozen foods can offer nutrition and money savings for people in isolated areas who have limited access to affordable, quality produce in the winter months. In fact, research has shown that in most cases, as frozen produce is generally picked when it is ripe, it is likely equally nutritious to much of the fresh produce we consume in the winter months. Of course, it wouldn’t be the same as produce picked off the tree, but it isn’t bad.
Other good picks in the frozen section to add variety to your diet include: ready-to-go frozen kidney beans, lima beans, split peas and other legumes, perogies and frozen, real fruit juices.
Watch for the Eating for Energy segment every Tuesday on BCTV’s Noon News Hour!
Article written by Patricia Chuey and reprinted with permission