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Default Seeking advice on buying/preparing fresh broccoli


Sqwertz wrote:

> Sheldon > wrote:
>
> > On Sep 23, 3:25 pm, Sqwertz > wrote:
> >> Sheldon wrote:
> >>> Sqwertz wrote:
> >>>> Sheldon wrote:
> >>>>> The only time I buy "fresh" broccoli is for crudites, which isn't
> >>>>> often. Frozen is always more nutritious, most usually costs less,

and
> >>>>> is far easier to prepare than so called fresh.
> >>>> How is frozen broccoli more nutritious? Duh.
> >>
> >>> Because frozen produce is flash frozen in the field within an hour of
> >>> harvest.
> >>
> >> Where'd you hear *that*?

> >
> > http://www.buzzle.com/articles/flash...egetables.html

>
> Yeah - and I suspect that accounts for less than .1% of the veggies
> in the frozen foods section of your grocery store.
> >
> > But you miss the point entirely. IF, you could get just harvested
> > broccoli then you may have a case, but you can't and so you don't.
> >
> > Produce fields are so large, hundreds and hundreds of acres, that it's
> > actually far more economical to haul mobile processing plants to the
> > field than to haul perishable produce to a processing plant...

>
> And then the grocery stores pick all these vegetables up right there
> at the field, right? Duh.
>
> You make no sense at all. It's far more economical for you to just
> shut the **** up.




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