Great Reasons To Eat In Season
By pam
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Mother Nature has particularly designed each season to have different food produce. And all for great and healthy reasons! Isn’t it a wonder that nutrients present in season foods are exactly what our bodies need to stay fit, healthy and strong? Well, yes! Take pumpkin for example. It’s a traditional feature of autumn and it is rich in vitamins A and C, calcium, iron and folates – all needed to fight seasonal cold and flu.
The Organic Supermarket gives us more reasons why we should eat in season.
Some other key factors encouraging us to eat seasonally include:
Freshness
All fruit and vegetables taste their best and are nutritionally highest when harvested fresh from the field close to where they were grown in their prime harvest month. Buying local also is also better for the environment due to lower transportation costs.Tastiness
Just try the difference! Strawberries taste great in the summer months, but eating them in February is not what nature intended.Healthiness
Trying new and exciting seasonal fruit and vegetables encourages you and your little ones to get that essential five a day portion in. Try delicious Swede soup in autumn, it’s hard to beat!Buying seasonally also stops us paying a premium for food that is scarcer out of season.
Seasonality also helps support the local economy with local farmers and independent stores benefiting from your food purchasing decision, thereby ensuring our next generation is not left with only a hand full of mega stores with no alternative.
If you haven’t given this any thought before, then now is the right time to start eating fresh and healthy season foods. This way, you and your family will be reunited with nature and its purpose once again.
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Funny how it’s actually hard, now, to get wholesome food. You can eat tons of junk, get fat as a barrel and still be malnourished.
It is kind of ironic.