Is Fresh Fruit or Frozen Fruit better

Better for what? I buy frozen organic berries because fresh are too expensive and not available all year.

Alatariel75 wrote: »

From the moment they are picked, fruit and vegetables begin to degrade nutritionally. "Fresh" fruit, depending where you get it can actually be weeks old, having been kept in cold storage. This is especially true if it is out of season. Thus the fruit you get in a supermarket may really not be very fresh at all.

Frozen fruit (and veg) is usually frozen reasonably shortly after being picked, and the nutrients are frozen along with it. So in many cases, frozen is actually better, as the nutrient levels have been preserved.

The best of all is truly fresh fruit, from your own trees/plants or from a farmer's market or the like.

That does make total sense. I've recently swapped over from fresh berries to frozen ones. I've never been a frozen fruit or veggie person, but because berries are out of season now I have no choice but to swap over to frozen... I just hope they do contain the same nutrients as the "fresh" stuff.

Freezing always destroys some of the vitamins, but how the fruit where processed, how long they are stored, how you store your fresh fruit etc, everything counts. Now as for flavour, to be honest, while I can consume frozen veggies no problem, the taste and texture of frozen fruit seems to me so unnatural, that I can only use them in smoothies or cooking.

christinev297 wrote: »

Yeah, I wouldn't be able to eat frozen fruit straight up! I only use them for my smoothies.

Lots of fruit is really nice frozen - berries, grapes, pineapple, banana, mango, melon, kiwi. I freeze them on purpose haha

I'm not a big fan of fruit and don't eat a lot of it. What I mostly eat is the blueberries that I flash freeze every summer that I pick from a U-Pick farm. Last year I picked over 30lbs and I still have some left. I use them in muffin recipes, in yogurt and in oatmeal. Besides that I can't remember the last time I had other fruit? I do like cherries so when cherry season opens up I'll go to a U-Pick farm and get those, though they don't freeze well so that's a seasonal treat. Oh and the occasional banana-sometimes I'll cut one up in my oatmeal, maybe one a month?

eta: for veggies-I do eat a LOT of these and I do a mix of fresh/frozen. Right now I have 10 red and orange bell peppers in my fridge that I will cut up and eat with ranch. I also have around 5lbs of green bell peppers frozen in my freezer that I use for stirfry's. I eat a lot of veggie/rice stirfrys and prefer frozen veggies for those

Fresh for eating as is, usually only in season. Frozen for smoothies, homemade popscicles, and baking.