Fish Oil Health Benefits: Healthy Produce

Besides fish oil health benefits, you need the antioxidants and phyto-nutrients from healthy produce.

Three of the most important things in your diet should be fish, for the fish oil health benefits, and vegetables and fruit, for the vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients.

So, what’s the best way to buy fruits and Veggies to go with your fish dinner. Should you choose fresh, frozen or in cans?

Based on extensive research, plus studies of healthy indigenous people, most all nutritional scientists agree that we should eat more fish and more fruits and vegetables.

The National Cancer Institute now recommends five to nine servings a day. So what’s the best way to buy fruits and veggies – fresh, frozen or canned?

While fresh is always your best choice, supermarket produce is far from fresh picked. It often spends many days being shipped across country and around the world and then sits for long periods on store shelves – losing considerable nutrition in the process.

Whenever possible, it’s preferable to buy locally grown organic fresh fruits and vegetables that come to you straight from the garden.

Organic produce, picked when ripe, is more nutritious, better tasting and best for both you and the environment. You can often find good bargain prices from local farmers or community co-ops. If you don’t have a co-op, consider starting one.

When good quality fresh produce is not available, (for instance, during winter months), canned should be your last choice.

The canning process used to kill bacteria destroys vitally important vitamins, enzymes and phytonutrients. Canned fruits and vegetables are also often high in unhealthy amounts of salt or sugars – sometimes both.

You’re better off choosing frozen, which is usually washed, flash frozen and refrigerated within 24 hours of being picked. This helps preserve the nutritional value, stops chances of spoiling and is a convenient way to store perishable foods.

You can even buy organically grown frozen produce at health food supermarkets. The price is usually higher, but it’s well worth it.

Just make sure the vegetables aren’t swimming in “organic” high fat cream sauce, butter or cheese.

Take the time to plan for more fruit, veggies and fish in your busy life.

With all the vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, phytonutrients and fantastic fish oil health benefits, you’ll look better, feel better, be healthier and happier for it.

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