Are You Getting All Your Nutrients From Your Food?
Eat foods closest to the source and fresh picked to get all your nutrients from food. Processed and junk food is not so nutritious and can rob nutrients. Are you getting all your nutrients from your food?
Do you tend to eat produce fresh picked immediately from garden or from the store? Do you buy the week’s produce and use it over several days? For best nutrition, eat foods closest to the source and time picked. You can plant a garden, or look for a farmer’s market, for the freshest produce.
Produce is most nutritious right after being picked. Once it’s picked, there is a time lag in getting the produce from the farm to the store, then to your shopping cart. This could be days or months (apples and potatoes, for example) before you get your produce from the farm. Don’t rinse your produce until right before you eat it.
Once food is picked, nutrients start to diminish. MSM (Methyl-sulfonyl-methane) is most abundant immediately after picking, and the longer the timing from picking, the less MSM is in the produce. MSM is a naturally occurring, organic sulfur compound, the third largest nutrient in our bodies. It is a key in healing and preventative properties in our bodies. It helps your joints, muscles, bones, skin, nails and hair. It is an antioxidant. It is essential to our cells being healthy.
The longer the food sits without being eaten, there are certainly other vitamins, minerals, and nutrients that are lessened in our foods.
The nutrients in the soil are also being taxed and depleted. The soil must be replenished with good fertilization, and crop rotation is important. Hopefully the farms you buy from are aware to do this, for best nutrition from the foods.
Frozen produce is good – if the freezing process is immediately after picking, without blanching and such. The nutrients are likely to be higher if frozen right away, as opposed to traveling for days and sitting in the store to get picked.
Processed and junk food is not so nutritious and can rob nutrients. Much nutrition, if not all, is gone from these foods.
Grocery stores tend to get deliveries during the weekdays, while the weekend tends to have older food that was delivered during the week. It is best to find out when your store gets food in and shop shortly after that. Eat your produce soon after getting it – you will get the most and best nutrition from it.
P.R.
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