Frozen fruits and vegetables typically are harvested at their peak of ripeness, meaning their nutritional value is at its highest.

And then those fruits and vegetables are flesh frozen, meaning you're kind of preserving that fruit or vegetable in time and preserving those nutrients until you use them for consumption and cooking.

So you can argue the point, and some research has shown us that those frozen fruits and vegetables might actually have more nutrient value than our traditional fresh fruits and vegetables that often come from other countries.

They are harvested, but then they travel on trucks for very long distances, and that's a long time passes between the harvesting and when you actually consume it.

And by that point, a lot of the micronutrients have degraded.

So that I think, is something people really should, should understand.

The thing about the frozen things is that they never go bad either.

And they're usually already cut off, especially with the vegetables, which makes it very easy to use as well.

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