Grocery store freezers are stocked with nutrient-dense peas, broccoli florets, corn, and carrots.
Fresh and frozen are generally nutritionally similar and comparative.
Cauliflower florets take 3 minutes in boiling water, while onion rings only need 10 to 15 seconds.
Photo Illustration by Tara Anand for Verywell Health; Getty Images
These foods tend to contain multiple ingredients and substances that are linked to unhealthy diet, Elnakib said.
Frozen vegetables, however, dont come with the same health risks.
You cant take a bad product and make it better by freezing.
You want to start with a good quality, ripe product that would be something you would eat.
Nutrients in the food deteriorate with time and temperature.
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.Frozen foods: convenient and nutritious.
University of Minnesota Extension.How to blanch vegetables before preserving.
2024;385:e078476.
doi:10.1136/bmj-2023-078476
University of Minnesota Extension.The science of freezing foods.
