Fresh or frozen food? Using SCIENCE to prove which is best with surprising results! - BBC

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[@Souchirouu]

Frozen vege are a life safer for me and it's not because they have similar or more nutrients it's also the ease of use. You can just buy a bag of mixed, pre-cut vegetables and save so much time during cooking prep which during the weekdays after work means the difference between one or two vegies or 5+ in my meals.

[@zyeet3243]

Excuses for laziness. Veg prep is 5 minutes for a whole family. You just value your TV program more than your health.

[@sugabay]

Same

[@real1092]

⁠@@zyeet32435 minutes??😂, for a whole family??nah stop caping

[@3ngan498]

Bruhh, have you been to the kitchen before? ​@@zyeet3243

[@pjr958]

GOD bless you 🙏👍♥️

[@rvermaas]

"Supermarket fresh" is NOT the same as fresh food! He mentioned that in the beginning, fresh from the garden is best!

[@liana-qu6mk]

NeefNeef thanks for clarifying that for us all🙄🙄🙄

[@user-me4wx4wn5o]

Why are u yelling

[@ibexedlayorf9223]

@@user-me4wx4wn5o hahaha....

[@SimplyAWitch9]

Many dont have gardens

[@BiharGaurav]

@@SimplyAWitch9 all of us should have it, just remove city concept, everybody live in village.

[@Highpowered_headscarf]

That detail about the raspberry values switching depending on the season would have been all too easy to leave out. Really grateful it wasn't, thanks a bunch...

[@JustinDaigneault]

Some nutrients do degrade over time from farm to table so freezing can help preserve. But testing vitamin C as the only indicator of "healthy" doesn't give us information about total nutrient density or account for cooking methods and further preservation or degradation before it even has a chance to be absorbed by our body. Once vitamins are actually in our body then we can also talk about utilization and things like Vitamin C being a drop in the bucket for an overall day or week of food consumption that also contain or is supplemented with vitamin C. I love food science though :)

[@MrMasterDebate]

While this is true, if something is losing vitamin C, there is no reason to think other nutrients are not going down

[@jaybee2402]

@@MrMasterDebate But do they degrade at similar rates? Also, do the heavier or more solid foods lose nutrients more slowly than the lighter, higher water content foods?

[@user-vm6oz6wt5g]

I randomly decided to search the nutrition of frozen vs fresh and I can say that this is the exact OPPOSITE of what I thought the results would be. That being said I genuinely get pretty fresh vegetables and I eat them all the time. For convenience I use frozen peas and carrots for quick meals. Good to know it’s still actually healthy and debatably healthier.

[@joshuamaka876]

Most of the "fresh" where imported hence the lower nutritional value. Go for fresh and local anytime.

[@DSN007]

​@@joshuamaka876correct 😑😑this is such a bs video. frozen foods would also vary from brand to brand. u cannot just give a blanket statement that frozen food is good. their processing n packaging would vary so much BUT u can guarantee fresh seasonal veggies n fruits would definitely have good percentage of nutrients.

[@AdondisArt]

It’s too bad this video only has 150,000 views! It was so well done and put together!

[@mohammadrio5378]

Thanks for this video.... So helpful...

[@alfonsodacullo3040]

Thanks for very simple explanation

[@p-cus5805]

Wow,, Adam and Ave eat frozen vegetables,, amazing!

[@CBTvideos]

Wow, pretty decent eye opener. I'm pretty much only ever using onions in food, so I'll consider it next time for sure.

[@christiaan6488]

Great video thank you.

[@yesyoucanTellme]

I prefer fresh because I grow my own and I am too lazy to go to the market

[@harishankar2603]

I Love You

[@DZ-sp9ck]

Can i ask how you started? Like what should i do first if i want to grow my own

[@bobmarley9712]

@@DZ-sp9ck I dno

[@Spectoral_on_SPOTIFY]

Too lazy to go to the shop but not too lazy to cultivate your own veggie farm? 🤔 🤔 🤔

[@annu5574]

@@Spectoral_on_SPOTIFY that is a pretty good and healthy kind of laziness ryt🥰.appreciate it

[@SocraticDebates]

Superb.... Interesting

[@shaymasaleh6289]

Winner winner frozen fresh dinner 🍽

[@bandman83]

I like the video but I think additional studies are necessary. They are testing for vitamin C which is essential but not the only thing the body needs: fiber, vitamin d, zinc, potassium, magnesium, etc. For example, they will find more fiber in fresh food than frozen.

[@aaravmysuru3385]

They claim that vit C n B are water soluble. If u flash freez upon timely harvesting they start in.

[@tsamt4889]

I was thinking exactly the same. Vitamin C will deplete drastically during the cooking process (doubt many will eat frozen veg without cooking first) so this information is not as useful as it doesn't cover the other vitamins which are also important to our maintain our health.

[@JokinJoe]

I buy frozen 90 percent of the time. It’s better than not eating any vegetables because you don’t have time to plan your meals perfectly to not waste your fresh food rapidly dying in your fridge. Fruit I’ll buy fresh.

[@davidoconnell8666]

Same here

[@Testo99]

Thats a lame reason to not buy and eat fresh vegs

[@awesomebeast7509]

@@Testo99your cool

[@ambitious9734]

i thought fresh vegetables en fruits is better than frozen..now i know..thanks BBC for another knowledge😊

[@rotties-rules]

Some fresh fruits are from the year before harvest it's all about storage.

[@batintheattic7293]

It just depends how long it takes, after picking, for them to reach your digestive system or be frozen.

[@sebastiangio1688]

frozen veggies all year round is better... fresh fruits in season is better.. in winter you go frozen fruit

[@andrzejkarel3750]

@@sebastiangio1688 that sums it up nicely, thanks

[@johnwt7333]

Well if we're talking about nutrients then the best option would be to prepare a smoothly with carbohydrates, fats, and proteins. Add a few pills with vitamins and minerals, freeze it, and you're good to go. Tasty eh! Speaking flavors: fresh = good, elevate with cooking. Frozen = garbage, not worth the trouble. I've never (knowingly) eaten frozen and if someone ever served it to me I'd never forget.

[@TheChecazzovuoidame]

No wonder, considering the price of frozen food (veg, fish, meat) not very far from the fresh one

[@michellemarie1197]

I'd go frozen, it's cheaper and can be long lasting like canned but its healthier than canned

[@johnwt7333]

Tastes like garbage. Not worth it

[@akapbhan]

@@johnwt7333 With English food how do you tell the difference?

[@qwerty-utsadsd]

😂@@akapbhan

[@galaxyworld2856]

Conclusion : Eat seasonal veggies

[@sunnybizzle2971]

Winner winner...you can come over for dinner! :) This was cool. I honestly thought frozen had less nutritional value. Thanks

[@AceViper141]

Support your local farmers market or go to the country side and buy Fruit and Vegetables from there. Supermarket Vegetables and fruits tends to have GMOs and other sorts of stuff to accelerate growth to meet up with supply and demand.

[@NeonKue]

Frozen foods get so much hate but they’re not only more convenient, they’re ironically fresher than most fresh produce in the store. Back then, consumers actually grew the food they ate at home or got it fresh from the farmers down the road. Now with our society of automation and convenience, we’ve become lazy yet still expect fresh quality lol

[@hiffets1]

This is super interesting tbh

[@LokiHiddlestone13]

I wanted to know about strawberries...Do they retain as much as raspberries?

[@liana-qu6mk]

🙄🙄🙄 boooooriiiing 🤭🤭🤭🤭

[@gavins9846]

@@liana-qu6mk toxic

[@ekoene6162]

yes! that would be interesting to know

[@healingcenter6000]

oh wow this is interesting

[@nanateali1038]

Good advertisement for supermarket frozen food 😉

[@katxnaa]

BBC please add in the Control group data point as well (i.e farm fresh veggies vitamin C content) this data will make a lot more sense with a scale for reference

[@biswajee]

What if the supermarket stock was sprayed on with ascorbic acid? I'm not aware of what constitutes the "freezing" process.

[@Weesperbuurt]

Bringing in sprouts from South Africa!?

[@looneyirish007]

seasons mate

[@KaiusKing]

Interesting

[@anonamemous6865]

4:17 Veggie not Pubg? Haha

[@dolopo9976]

I love the accent “vita men see”

[@paramaswary790]

Best content

[@aarong1687]

Sorry but Imma go with fresh. Frozen Vegetables makes the vegetable saggy after thawed.

[@aaravmysuru3385]

No. Only Those vegetables who are 80% n more of water are prone to saggy.

[@BiharGaurav]

You should compare with Garden fresh and Frozen, not Super Market fresh and Frozen, that we know without test results with instinct.

[@zirak93-2]

Fresh frozen brought me here. 😂😂😂

[@sonyakaushal]

When a certain fruit or vegetable is not in season -- it means we're not meant to eat it. Always eat whats in season and local. That's really the secret to healthy eating

[@alexojideagu]

Not really, fruits and vegetables we eat are man made anyway, through hundreds of years of breeding and cultivating. Almost none of the fruit, vegetables, wheat, corn, rice we eat exists in nature. A company growing it out of season in a greenhouse is no more unnatural.

[@jgbecker24]

I'd argue fruits and vegetables eaten all year round is a key to healthy eating whether they're in season or not.

[@alfonsodacullo3040]

Flash freezing is the key to locked in nutrients

[@kallachnadra]

I noticed..him saying that frozen have been frozed right after being harvested. If it is so..which I believe..then I go for frozen is a better choice. Thanks

[@user-wy4qn7si1w]

I wonder about other vitamins and nutrients

[@ej33221]

I'll go frozen for every vegetables except broccoli & asparugus

[@ghnbtrcv8672]

I thought frozen have 0 nutrients so that a good thing for me as I make shakes from frozen😄

[@stephenmurray2851]

I'm surprised people ever thought fresh was healthier than frozen. It would seem obvious to me frozen was better.

[@artlover5798]

Does the freezing process break the cell walls of meat and plants?

[@salvatorem1959]

We have a smart man here ... Did you ever find an answer to this very intelligent question. I am curious too

[@Aaron-kp6kp]

You guys are lucky that I am here. Yes, freezing does break cell walls of animals and plants. There are water in membranes. When you freeze them, they expand and break the cell walls.

[@aaaaaaa6954]

@@Aaron-kp6kp does that mean that it is less healthy

[@Aaron-kp6kp]

@@aaaaaaa6954 ma'am or sir. I have reviewed my comment 2 times. I have not spot myself claiming that it is healthy....

[@loot6]

@@Aaron-kp6kp I checked his comment 2 times and nowhere did he say you did, he simply asked if that meant it was less healthy or not....

[@Swampwild1]

Definitely buy from local regenerative farms or grow yourself. Freeze the majority for winter. A 7cu ft freezer will use under 40 kWH a month so $5. Double ziplock bags suck air out. Buy your meat from the farmer you know too! Pasture animals.

[@94TransAmGT]

Good info! But it's usually the guy that has the corny jokes! 😂

[@endadalton]

I work in a supermarket and have been wondering how nutritious carrots can be 5 months later stored in a fridge can be, I guess there no good at all.

[@davidlguerr]

Also canned tomatoes can be better than fresh tomatoes, because they harvest them in their full ripeness.

[@TheLostinTheUnknown]

Don't know about the nutrients but they taste considerably worse

[@foveauxbear]

Thanks for this little insight ... I have BIG issues with Australia's Woolworth's calling themselves "The Fresh Food People". Clearly this is not true.

[@esudo]

No x-y marking on the graphs

[@peidoatomico]

Lol wat? X is Fresh or frozen Y is mg/kg

[@yesterdayschunda1760]

What a shocker lol. All "fresh" vegetables and fruit is like 6 months old by time it hits a supermarket shelf.

[@KhadijaNAOUFEL]

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[@Griff1361]

There are more vitamins and minerals in veg than vitamin c if your not going to measure them all what’s the point? Also your not taking into account texture & taste, frozen onions have virtually no flavour and aroma and a lot of frozen veg like broccoli, cauliflower and sprouts go mushy when cooked from frozen. That being said there are a lot of veg that has virtually no difference in taste or texture like peas & spinach (as long as your cooking it)

[@TheLostinTheUnknown]

They didn't measure all the nutrients probably because doing all the different tests would cost a lot of money. Frozen spinach is as tasteless as they come.

[@Zyks10]

Sounds like bucket loads of cash was handed over 😂😂 they’ll do a study 10 years later and say we were wrong!

[@Prayag-jd4rz]

Absolute Truth

[@PaoloVarquez]

What’s Russell Peters doing here

[@adddriiiisaaaa5840]

Wow! Great to know! It’s even cheaper too!! Win win!!

[@TheLostinTheUnknown]

Frozen food is more expensive, what the heck are you talking about!?

[@McMilesE]

How is this possible if the frozen veg is par-cooked/boiled or steamed before packaging thereinby dimishing at least some of the vitamin content due to cooking with water

[@TARQUINLEE]

Go fresh!!!

[@Eeda01]

Why, they have less nutritional value.

[@lindseyd4563]

@@Eeda01*less vitamin c; *out of season

[@Eeda01]

@@lindseyd4563 Not true, watch the vid.

[@lindseyd4563]

@@Eeda01 I think you're the person who didn't watch the vid

[@Eeda01]

@@lindseyd4563 I like how you think you know better than experts.

[@Taahmim]

Probably frozen veg release vitamin easily on blender

[@SuarezX]

Fresh is better simple as that.

[@XzaroX]

Don't let Gordon Ramsay hear of this.

[@jahmed9358]

What tastes better though?

[@minjunchoi3432]

From my personal experience, fresh ones taste always better

[@chrisherrera5769]

I prefer the taste of frozen fruit

[@loot6]

Mmmmm.....vitamin C...

[@saveourworld5592]

Is there any preservatives inside the frozen goods? Preservatives is not good right?

[@rifqyfadhilahrahman2498]

There is no preservatives in frozen food. Freeze the food itself is a technique to preserve food.

[@Themis33]

Somethings happened to carrots since covid started. They're old. Even with a long date on them. They're old. And go white. Crusty. Also organic ones go off and biodegrade.

[@MrMasterDebate]

Frozen is nearly always better.

[@zyeet3243]

Let’s ask Gordon… Bet he’d tell you to stuff that graph up you know where.

[@eungyoungZz]

But what if we boil the vegetables? Is it still better to get the frozen ones? Cuz i need to thaw it anyways:(

[@DragonKhy]

Fresh frozen

[@EASYTIGER10]

Where do the vitamin C and other vitamins "go" for stuff that's been stored unfrozen?

[@Un1234l]

They break down and denature from the heat, light, etc.

[@dcclyde575]

This video was sponsored by all the frozen food companies. 🤣

[@kaiserkaiser1721]

You bet.

[@fabiuh12345]

Can you propose a contra point about the "freshyness" about fresh vs frozen? Or will you stop by the conspiracy?

[@onyhow]

Given the usual people who post these kind of things, they can't and won't. It's all feels over science

[@DreadedLad88]

conspiracy nut

[@lxwkey9763]

Dead. Ass. I only watched to see if they mention frozen veg have nearly zero fiber content.

[@wtfnoheals]

This is absolute insanity! I was taught the complete opposite all throughout my schooling !

[@itsme8700]

0:18 Say what bro?

[@DeannaSpencer-vf5qn]

All Stores Please Lower the Price of all Military & Local for all Brands of Frozen Food Products & Accessories & Production Cost Now That's too much $$ The Whole World Now 🙏🙏🙏

[@mansoormohamedali122]

Pretty much of a muchnesses 😂😅

[@galaxyworld2856]

Why only vitamin C ?

[@loot6]

Because all the other vitamins don't hold up and you wouldn't start crazily buying frozen fruit and vegetables.

[@AlabanzaMusic]

Every time I go into the supermarket and see the word "fresh" I don't buy it. You want close to fresh? Go to the market on the first market day. Besides you should really be eating local foods in season. If imported, definitely frozen.

[@lindseyd4563]

Not to mention the blanching done before freezing is seems like an oversight, as it also sizably removes nutrients. Eat in season, duh. It's better taste, nutrition, and better for the environment, but guys, I'm gonna eat fresh. If you're gonna build healthy habits, taste and texture from fresh always wins out for me.

[@liana-qu6mk]

Lindsey Dissinger thanks for the lecture 🥱🥱🥱🥱

[@lindseyd4563]

No. Most all veg can be eaten raw. I think potatoes and kidney beans are pretty much it on the toxic if raw front. Sometimes it's good to cook (spinach has more iron if cooked, so great if you're anemic, but it loses vit c and all b vits) but most times plants lose water soluble nutrients and fiber if cooked, so go for raw. Caveat: soak seeds and nuts in liquid to make them more bioavailable.

[@Kitsune_Dev]

What the heck

[@afrikafinest2327]

Is it a plot to promote companies that make freezers and refrigerators?

[@mongolteron7018]

✌👍✅

[@jennifersun2638]

If you buy local or grow your own food,would fresh be better?

[@jake42731]

Yes, assuming your soil has enough nutrients

[@mrrashidalichandio2658]

What your name

[@jeongminyoun5388]

Gordon ramsay : get the fu#@ out of here ! Rule number one do not use frozen !

[@leopardtiger3980]

Then buy local vegwtable

[@shioq.]

did anyone ever tell him his hair is severely thinning?

[@nidaamreen8260]

How does the vit.c content increases when it is freezed

[@duranpredur1098]

You gone through the video without listening? They explained twice that storage and transportation of fresh food makes food lose nutrients. Freezing pretty much stop that process.

[@mindfortress105]

magic!

[@loot6]

Lol funny you thought the vitamin c increased in the frozen rather than the vitamin c decreased in the fresh. Very optimistic view on life. Although you could've just listened during the video like others have mentioned.

[@4ngelo_]

Just vitamin C? lol There's no mention of enzymes which are "the spark of life".

[@randowragul2813]

Marketing strategies

[@brobiv2452]

is this video fake??

[@mangeshburange8991]

Why vitamin c? How come you concluded the same would be for other vitamins?

[@RatKindler]

They explained that in the video.

[@therealvbw]

You might even say it's a *WHOPPING* difference

[@anastasia.si.]

But theeeen you will start cooking! And that's it, bye all vitamins😢Be careful buying frozen food, sometimes stores are defrosting and then putting back in the freezer. This is how I bought rotting chicken😵‍💫

[@namehere4954]

I tell people STOP putting produce on some superiority scale. Fresh, frozen, conventional, organic, canned, dried, freeze dried, etc - Whatever way you can afford and eat fruit & veg JUST EAT IT!!

[@kaw8473]

I can tell you personally that if I buy fresh produce, 50% of it will go to waste because life happens and a dish I intended on cooking doesn't happen. Frozen vegetables all the way.

[@prasathcs7377]

Brought to you by the frozen food industry

[@loot6]

Lol yeah that's what I was thinking. We've been told to drink 8 glasses of water a day to increase bottled water sales and that turned out to be bs. We were told sugar is bad so they can start selling us cheap artificial sweeteners in drinks. They told us saturated fat was bad so they could sell us cheap seed oils....in literally everything. It seems most of the time it's trying to make bs alternative seem better. I'm not saying this is wrong about frozen food, but at this point you have to be suspicious.

[@davidgold972]

why do i find this difficult to believe/

[@MatiasMunoz-ex4do]

This study is not conclusive about wich form has more nutrients

[@dion789]

Frozen being the winner is not exactly the correct conclusion after what they showed. The correct conclusion would be: In season and comes from your own country or close by -> fresh Out of season and comes from the other side of the world -> frozen

[@loot6]

Why do you say that? The vegetables seemed to have more vitamin content regardless of season. The problem is not just seasonality but also the time that passes before we purchase them vs vegetables that are frozen early. I don't think peas, carrots and brussel sprouts are coming from the other side of the world anyway.

[@extremenature9190]

How is Vit C a good indicator? That has nothing to do with other nutrients. The “scientist” is making a hasty conclusion.

[@Known-unknowns]

I wonder if The Queen is fed from the supermarket or her own veg are picked and fed to her ? Is that why she & her husband have made the age they are ?