Q&A with Bert Weiss of Q100’s “The Bert Show” Part 2

Hopefully you saw my previous post about my twitter conversation with Q100's Bert Weiss. If you didn’t, please go read it now and come back.  No, really.  What are you still doing here?? Go read it.

So, following our sugar conversation, Bert had another nutrition question:

@BertShowBert: Here's another. Do freeze dried veggies retain their nutritional value?

And my response…

@CarolynBallard:  Yes...May be lower in some vitamins that break down easily (like C), but overall still high in nutrients and phytochemicals.




This is a summary of my feelings about fruits and vegetables that are dried, freeze-dried, frozen, or canned:

• They should never be a substitute for fresh produce
• They are convenient and usually less expensive than fresh F&V
• Canned = the worst choice.  Can be very high in sodium and low in nutrients. But if it’s all you like, eat up.  It’s still better than no vegetables.
• Frozen = the best choice.  Maintain a lot of their nutritional value and last a very long time.
• Dried fruit can be healthy in moderation, but beware that some kinds have added sugar (i.e. sugar-coated raisins in cereal).
• Fruit and veggie “chips” that are cooked in oil get a big thumbs down.  Especially banana chips.  I don’t really know why anyone would want to eat them anyway. When I was a child we would feed them to our pet ferret.  I don’t know about you guys, but anything a ferret eats is not going in my mouth.

Did you expect this post to end with a ferret story?!  Yeah, me neither.

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