Sentences with phrase «nutrients than fresh»

The food served in U.S. schools today is much lower in nutrients than fresh, local food — and travels on average 3,000 miles on its voyage from farm to lunch line.

I always try to buy organic frozen blueberries since they retain more nutrients than fresh berries do (they are frozen at peak harvest), plus they are so much cheaper per serving than fresh berries are.

Dried apricots are a better source of certain nutrients than fresh apricots, including vitamin A, B vitamins, iron and potassium.

Read more about how to freeze summer fruits and vegetables «Frozen» Great Option According to a recent study published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry (2015), fruits and vegetables that are frozen have as much (and at times more) nutrients than fresh.

Sometimes frozen fruits and vegetables have more nutrients than fresh, that is if fresh is not from a local farm, but shipped across country or even from another country.

I always try to buy organic frozen blueberries since they retain more nutrients than fresh berries do (they are frozen at peak harvest), plus they are so much cheaper per serving than fresh berries are.

Not exact matches

According to Drori, properly frozen foods capture nutrients better than fresh foods that have spent days in delivery.

This may can sound weird, but there's nothing I like the most than a fresh but oh so nutrient salad bowl, with different textures and ingredients.

It turns out that frozen vegetables are often more nutritious than fresh because they're picked at peak ripeness when nutrient levels are highest, usually partly cooked, and frozen before they can degrade.

I really prefer using whole fruits such as dates to sweeten my recipes rather than sweetener as it is so much better for you to eat the whole fruit rather than part of it, as it's fresher and has more nutrients.

Most produce is picked fresh that morning rather than spending days traveling cross-country on a truck, losing vitamins and nutrients.

They had processed high - sugar breakfast cereals (heaven forbid they should actually cook some oatmeal), gallons of fresh milk (because powdered is «icky» and they won't eat it), cheese (that was a luxury we couldn't afford), frozen convenience foods, juice (which is much less healthy than fruit and expensive relative to nutrients), and soda, candy, donuts, cookies, cracker, ice cream and other treats we couldn't possibly afford.

Once your baby has transitioned well to solids, try fresh, whole foods that pack a lot of nutrients per calorie and have undergone little or no processing (other than pureeing or mashing by you).

For produce, she advises reaching for frozen vegetables, which provide nutrients while saving longer than quick - to - spoil fresh veggies and fruits.

Go for frozen: Frozen vegetables are generally snap frozen, so they haven't really had much time to lose their nutrients — it's a lot better option than the fresh vegetables that have been sitting in your fridge for a long time,» says Austin.

Though vitamins can degrade in fresh fruits and vegetables over time, many nutrients in foods are much hardier than most people assume, Dr. Bouzari said.

They mention that a 2013 study suggests that pre-packaged fresh produce may have fewer nutrients than frozen — the fresh produce suffers from degradation over its time from preparation, to shelf - time, to your plate.

Fresh foods generally have a higher nutrient content than do cooked or canned foods.

Figs and raisins are dried fruits that are higher in sugar than many fresh fruits, but they are also two of the most nutrient - dense fruits you can eat containing large amounts of iron, potassium, calcium, and magnesium.

Cordain says excluding grain and dairy actually increases the trace nutrient (vitamin, mineral and phytochemical) density in your diet because fresh vegetables, fruits, seafood, fish and grass produced meat and poultry contain greater vitamins and minerals overall than grains and dairy.

Eat fresh, cold - pressed oils, and rather than counting calories, count nutrients.

In addition to this, they last a lot longer than fresh foods and the freezing process locks in many of the nutrients to the vegetables and fruits.

«Frozen berries are often less expensive than the fresh variety and contain all the same great nutrients.

Although not as nutritional as fresh spinach, frozen spinach retains its nutrients better when frozen than when kept at room temperature.

I like to use frozen ingredients since 1) they're often cheaper than their fresh counterparts, 2) they're conveniently already prepared for you, and 3) studies have found that they're just as or even more nutritious than their fresh counterparts since they're typically flash - frozen just after being harvested, when the nutrients are most abundant.

With more than 10 percent of the daily value for potassium per serving, both fresh bananas and banana powder qualify as good sources of the nutrient.

Bottled juice isn't as nutrient dense as fresh pressed juice, but it is better than no juice at all!

Actually, frozen veggies are known to hold more nutrients than the supposed «fresh» veggies in a grocery store (unless maybe from a trusted farm market) Onto nutrient.

Dried fruit contains 3 times more sugar than fresh fruit and much fewer fibers, which isn't a good source of nutrients.

If my continuous brew is less than two months old and the KT is tasting vinegary within 2 - 3 days with a pH of 3.0, should I still clean out the brewer and start with fresh nutrient brew?

Benefits: Exceptionally nutrient - rich; May result in weight loss; Fresh is always better than processed; Very Earth - friendly; Quantity and quality are enforced.

Two or three cups of fresh veggies at mealtime provides more nutrients and satisfaction than a spoonful of superfoods here and there.

Fermentation releases nutrients from the food, making them more bio-available for the body: for example sauerkraut contains 20 times more bio-available vitamin C than fresh cabbage.»

Using fresh spring herbs rather than dried or processed seasonings is a simple way to add nutrient density to daily meals.

It is much more important to consume fresh, whole and nutrient - dense foods than to count calories.

Another great perk of using frozen foods is that they're often cheaper than fresh (even for organic) and are picked at their peak ripeness, meaning that they retain most of their vital nutrients.

This means that this dog food has about 300 % more protein than those with just fresh chicken, making it a better source of the said nutrient.

In terms of supplements, fresh fruits and vegetables are great natural sources for key nutrients — much more biologically valuable than synthetic supplements.

People who feed their dogs a homemade diet usually want to improve nutrition through the use of fresh foods, rather than feeding highly processed commercial diets that rely on a long list of synthetic nutrients in order to meet nutritional requirements.

This dry dog food is high in nutrients to make sure that dogs are being provided with a well - balanced diet that doesn't need to be supplemented with anything other than fresh, clean water.

Fresh foods are easier for the body to break down and pull nutrients from than a highly processed kibble, uncooked diet, or anything with artificial ingredients.

Natural sources of vitamins and minerals (like fresh fruit and vegetables) offer higher bioavailability for your dog which means that his body will be able to absorb those nutrients better than it would absorb synthetic supplements.

I would rather feed my dog a combination of moist, human grade, muscle meat protein, whole grains, and fresh vegetable and fruit options having a somewhat varying or unknown cumulative nutrient content rather than any commercially available dry or canned option made with pet grade ingredients.

Fresh dog food is often much more digestible than processed kibble, or even processed wet food, so your dog can get more energy and nutrients from «less.»

Fresh meats like chicken, turkey, fish, lamb, and others are much more biologically valuable to your cat than plant proteins — this simply means that your cat's body can more easily digest and absorb the nutrients from animal products than from plant products.

We know that fresh chicken is more easily digestible than chicken meal by our dogs and cats, and that it helps them retain more essential nutrients.

Cranberry extract powder is the dehydrated form of the cranberry plant and is an excellent source of vitamin C. Dried or dehydrated fruits are nutrient dense and allow us to use more than whole fruits, since they have significantly lower water content than whole / fresh fruits.

Although phosphates are an important plant nutrient, higher than normal phosphate levels can destroy the health of the lake, stream or other fresh water body, as they allow algae in the water to grow faster than would naturally occur, turning clear lakes and rivers green and cloudy.