Why the Bad Rap on Canned Veggies ?
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donyellemoniquex3
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Some people just can't use all the fresh veggies within the week !
Let alone spending gas money to and from the store.
Let alone spending gas money to and from the store.
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Canned veggies often have added sodium and/or sugar - I think that's why they have a bad reputation. I'm also still concerned about BPA in cans. I rely on frozen vegetables, instead. Just a personal preference!0
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I think it has to do with the added sodium, etc. that go into the canned vegetables. Fresh green beans, for example, are only green beans. Green Giant canned green beans add water and salt. They have almost 400 mg of sodium per serving, while fresh green beans have 7 mg.
Personally, I think that someone would do better eating canned veggies over no veggies, but fresh and/or frozen > canned.
References:
Green Giant: http://greengiant.com/pages/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductID=11
Fresh: http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2341/20 -
sodium, BPA, and they arent quite as nutrient rich and frozen or fresh. Still a great choice though compared to no veggies.0
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Try to go with frozen if you have room in the freezer.0
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For me, one word: Sodium.0
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Try to go with frozen if you have room in the freezer.
This. Aside from corn, frozen veggies taste better. I flippin' HATE canned vegetables.0 -
Canned green beans especially look so awful... my mom served a lot of canned veggies. I couldn't believe how GOOD a lot of veggies tasted when I grew up and had them FRESH!0
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I just can't do canned veggies after getting used to fresh food. I always keep frozen veggies in the house for a back up when we run out. They're usually super cheap and really good!0
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Yep frozen are the way to go. They last practically forever, & generally are more vitamin enriched than fresh due to being frozen straight away versus picked, stored, transported.0
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I can't do canned vegies, they just have a super weird texture. Frozen is the best way to go if you can't get through the fresh, though I'm fine chowing through my fresh veg - I just resign myself to the same veg most nights!0
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Flavorless overcooked mush with way too much salt.
Need longer keeping produce?
Buy frozen.0 -
I only have canned corn or tomatoes, and generally frozen peas & corn, but I try to have fresh everything. I don't like frozen vegs anywhere near as much as fresh, and I've never really eaten canned veggies, they just don't sound appealing! Like, asparagus spears in a can just sounds wrong.0
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I eat tinned beans and pulses but not veggies, just because they taste like crap! Frozen all the way0
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Canned green beans especially look so awful... my mom served a lot of canned veggies. I couldn't believe how GOOD a lot of veggies tasted when I grew up and had them FRESH!
Yep. I thought I didn't like green beans or peas. Turns out, I didn't like *canned* green beans or peas.0 -
Canned veggies often have added sodium and/or sugar - I think that's why they have a bad reputation. I'm also still concerned about BPA in cans. I rely on frozen vegetables, instead. Just a personal preference!
This. I buy frozen.0 -
canned veggies are like a filler / added volume to your meal. cooking at high heat that it took to can the veggies destroys the enzymes and vitamins and such that you get it you just stir fry or steamed the fresh or frozen leaving them a little crisp not cooked to mush.0
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I stopped buying canned vegetables years ago. Now, canned vegetables taste like salt blocks to me. Last Thanksgiving, at my work's Thanksgiving luncheon someone brought green bean casserole and they used canned green beans. I couldn't stand it, it was like salt casserole.
Buy frozen, or tailor your menu to seasonal vegetables and plan your week out. Vegetables that go bad after 2 or 3 days use early in the week, and then for the later days use vegetables that last longer. Oh and those produce green bags work great!
I don't know where you are, but sometimes the frozen vegetables end up being cheaper. Like Kroger has bags of frozen vegetables for only $1.00. Oh, and frozen fruit is the way to go too sometimes, especially when strawberries and stuff like that stop being in season.
Oh, and another note about seasonal vegetables. You can buy bulk vegetable during in season times and freeze them. For example, when green beans come in season and end up being like $.99 a pound, buy 5 pounds and split them into 1 lb bags and freeze.
The only canned items I buy now are unsalted canned tomatoes. I have even stopped buying canned beans because it is just more cost effective to buy beans in bulk, cook them up and then freeze them until I am ready to use.0 -
Personally I think some frozen vegetables taste different. To me there is a big difference between fresh brocoli and frozen brocoli. Maybe you could try a market as fresh vegetables on a market is a lot cheaper on a super market. Or at least they are in my area. If not I would definitely go frozen. They are sometimes half the price of fresh vegetables for twice the amount with an expiry date that is way off. Seems like a good option.0
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there really isn't a whole lot of nutritional value in canned veggies.0
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canned one word sodium and well they taste like crap too.
But I agree frozen is MUCH better than canned if you cannot eat all the fresh.0
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