On May 2, 11:03*am, "(David P.)" > wrote:

> *MISTAKE #1
>
> You’re overloading on produce
> Sure, making one big grocery run at the start
> of *week seems like a no-fail way to get your
> five a day. After all, if those carrots, greens,
> apples, & berries are around, you’ll eat more
> of them & therefore get more nutrients, right?
> Wrong. “The vitamins & minerals in fruits and
> veggies begin to diminish the moment they’re
> harvested,” says Geri Brewster, a wellness
> consultant at Northern Westchester Hosp. in
> Mt. Kisco, New York. That means the longer
> you store produce, the fewer nutrients it will
> contain. After about a week in the fridge, for
> example, spinach retains just half of its folate
> and around 60 % of its lutein (an antioxidant
> associated w/ healthy eyes), concludes a study
> in the Journal of Food Science. Broccoli loses
> about 62 percent of its flavonoids (antioxidant
> compounds that help ward off cancer & heart
> disease) within 10 days, according to a study
> in the Journal of Agricultural & Food Chemistry.
> “Yer better off buyin' smaller batches at least
> twice a week,”

Exactly how often do you think produce is picked?
The broccoli that I buy on Saturday arrived on the
same darned truck as the broccoli that I buy on
Wednesday. It had the same trip from California
to Michigan.

Cindy Hamilton