Meeting your family's nutritional needs may seem difficult considering today's busy lifestyle. But it doesn't have to 1. Even a new emphasis 2 more fruit and vegetables doesn't necessarily mean more preparation time if you 3 the convenience of canned food.
When you open a 4 of fruit or vegetables at home you have fresh packed nutritional produce at hand, with no man-made ingredients and no preservatives. And all the work has been 5 for you: the slicing, the peeling, even the cooking. Canned fruit and vegetables leave you the 6 to be creative. And with the variety of fruit and vegetables available these days, you can serve different combinations, create new dishes, and 7 new tastes to old recipes. Canned foods are good as well. A United States Department of Agriculture and National Nutritional Foods Association co-sponsored study shows canned vegetables to be just as 8 as fresh or frozen. Because canned vegetables are 9 within hours of being packed, they generally retain 70 to 90 percent of their nutrients.
Fruit and vegetables canning is as 10 as your grandmother "stores up" tomatoes and other things from the garden. Fresh produce is taken from the field at just the right time, 11 to the cannery, checked, washed, sealed, and sterilized. All this generally 12 in less than 24 hours to 13 the best quality and nutritional value without the need for any preservatives.
Use the liquids that vegetables are 14 in as a substitute for water in recipes to get that last drop of good nutrition.
Most major brands of canned fruit and vegetables include nutritional 15 and ingredient statements on their labels. This is especially important to those on calorie-conscious or restricted diets.
