All know that an essential part of each classical diet are fruit and vegetables. Doctors in general advise there are as much as possible bright fruit and vegetables. However recent researches showed that now the reaped crops are already not so rich with nutritive matters as they were, for example, fifty years ago. There is it for many reasons.
First, have an adverse effect on a harvest of attempt to plant as much as possible seeds on the limited site of the field. Secondly, soil not eternal. Throughout all history of mankind the people actively used natural resources including the soil, and now it is simply exhausted. Every new decade of nutritive matters in the earth remains less, and fertilizers it is required more and more.
Anyway, vegetables and fruit don't load with health any more as earlier, and with it it is necessary to do something. Fortunately, there is some advice which will help to take the maximum advantage from fruit and vegetables.
It is necessary to buy what grows at a row
The more time vegetable or fruit carries out "on the way", the it is less than vitamins and minerals in it remains. As not everyone is able to afford to contain own kitchen garden, it is worth choosing vegetables and fruit whenever possible in the market and to pay attention to "homeland" of a product.
The frozen vegetables – a great option
Common sense repeats that vegetables need to be bought exclusively fresh. However sometimes the product frozen right after harvesting contains much more nutritive matters, than fresh on which transportation not one day left. Therefore if there is a choice, for example, between fresh cabbage of broccoli from Poland and freezing, it is better to take freezing.
You can't judge a book by its cover
The big, casting luster fruit, undoubtedly, draw attention. However, it is kind of tempting they looked, it is necessary to remember that their brightness speaks about huge amount of pesticides. Organic apples can be small and unsightly, but will bring more benefit to health.
It is necessary to minimize all manipulations with vegetables and fruit
Experts advise literally as little as possible to touch vegetables and fruit, that is, not to cut them and if to cut, then on big pieces. Why? The fact is that at contact with air vegetable or fruit loses the useful properties. The more to cut them, the more there is an area of contact with air.
It is better to eat vegetables crude
It isn't necessary to cook in general vegetables if it is possible. If they after all need to be prepared, it is necessary to lower cooking time, thus useful properties of a product will remain or will be limited to the minimum losses. It is also necessary to know that the more vegetable contacts to water, the it loses more substances. Therefore the best ways of preparation of vegetables is a steam boiling and frying. Vegetables can't be digested, it isn't necessary to assume that they razmokat.
Products presently, of course, any more not those, and now it is necessary to treat the choice of any product with care and attention. Nevertheless, everyone is capable to conform to several simple rules to make the food healthy and balanced.