Why can frozen vegetables be just as healthy as fresh?

That cheap bag of frozen peas may hold more vitamins than the fresh greens wilting in your fridge.

Vegetables headed for freezing are picked ripe and frozen within hours, locking nutrients in place. Fresh produce keeps losing vitamins, especially vitamin C, during the days it spends in trucks, on shelves, and in your fridge.

A 30,000 VND bag of frozen spinach frozen on harvest day can carry more vitamin C than fresh spinach that rode a truck and sat three days at the market.

Frozen is not a downgrade. For many vegetables it is a fair swap, often cheaper and longer-lasting.

You can eat well for less by keeping frozen vegetables on hand instead of letting fresh ones rot.

Frozen = paused at its peak. The clock stops the moment it is frozen.

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