Frozen Veg

terra_ferma

You are right, processed peas are not "real" peas, they have sugar added, they are more like junk food IMO
However normal tinned peas with just water and no sugar are as good as frozen peas as far as I know.
Nutritionally on the packet/tin they would look different as one is cooked, and the other raw, but as far as I know they are both equally good.
Sugar and salt added to tinned vegetables can unbalance a diet, if one relies on them for their veg intake.

terra_ferma

Linda32 wrote: »

As far as your 5-a-day goes, it really dosn't matter what you eat, its all veg wether its fresh/frozen/tinned, bearing in mind any sugar and salt added to tinned veg.

sorry, I don't agree with this statement
gov guidelines include highly processed food, even like Innocent smoothes, and fruit juice from concentrated.
However like you I'm happy to use fresh/frozen/tinned.
I try and use fresh as much as possible, but it goes through so much processing, and it's kept in fridges for a long time so I'm not convinced that supermarket fresh food is much fresher than tinned/frozen food.
If we talked about self-grown vegs, or bought from a local farmer than I would think more of the nutrients are kept if cooked not long after it was picked.

Ultimately any veg is better than no veg, let's not forget. Once you started eating lots of veg instead of junk food, you can worry about tinned/frozen/etc

Edwardia

We could go round in circles about fresh. For example, if you buy apples, they could have been refrigerated for up to a year in a cold store. When you buy freshly-baked bread, it may be freshly-baked - from frozen dough. There's a Best Before date or Use-by date but very rarely anything which tells you when the product was picked/slaughtered/caught/laid/made. The majority of veg is refrigerated and sometimes its very cleverly done.

Linda32

I was refering to the added salt and sugar in tinned peas, when I said "bearing that in mind", as in that might negate any goodness from the peas.

I have to agree, I oftern wonder how "fresh", fresh supermarket veg is. I mean its not as if these fields around the back of Sainsburys is it? :rotfl:

As it is I only buy frozen Sweetcorn and Peas, we have an allotment for the rest. Although for some reason we can't grow sprouts, so we buy them. "Fresh" as it happens, for some reason I would expect frozen sprouts to be mushy. We only buy them for Christmas as we have plenty of other veggies of our own to see us through without buying any.

I do buy Mushy peas in a tin, as they are cheaper than from the chip shop when we have chippy shop chips. Never buy any other tinned veg though.

Edwardia

Linda32 wrote: »

I oftern wonder how "fresh", fresh supermarket veg is. I mean its not as if these fields around the back of Sainsburys is it? :rotfl:

Cracking up at the thought of Sainsbury's car park full of leeks