Do we really get the nutrients we need from canned vegetables/foods?!


Question: Although there's a lot of sodium and preservatives, you actually can. It's almost the exact same nutrients you'd get out of buying it fresh and cooking it in a lot of salt or sugar (if it's canned fruit) since cooking vegetables takes away some nutrients, especially like vitamin C which can not be exposed to heat.

As for fruits, they're usually packed with added sugar and syrup, so the caloric value is heightened, plus there is no longer any vitamin C in it.

One canned food that has even more nutrients is canned fish, because they are able to keep the bones in due to the high heat canned foods are processed at, which gives you more calcium than if you were to eat fish that wasn't canned.


Answers: Although there's a lot of sodium and preservatives, you actually can. It's almost the exact same nutrients you'd get out of buying it fresh and cooking it in a lot of salt or sugar (if it's canned fruit) since cooking vegetables takes away some nutrients, especially like vitamin C which can not be exposed to heat.

As for fruits, they're usually packed with added sugar and syrup, so the caloric value is heightened, plus there is no longer any vitamin C in it.

One canned food that has even more nutrients is canned fish, because they are able to keep the bones in due to the high heat canned foods are processed at, which gives you more calcium than if you were to eat fish that wasn't canned.

Some. but not all.





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