Eating seasonal produce is not only good for you but tastes better. The nutrients will be higher because the food has not been sitting in a cold storage freezer for days or weeks. For instance, seasonal broccoli has nearly twice the amount of vitamin C as out-of-season broccoli.
Many chefs use seasonal foods for their restaurants. However, there is nothing trendy about eating seasonally fresh food, it has been done for thousands of years.
This article discusses the 7 seasonal foods that taste best in winter.
When you take a trip to your local grocery store, it’s easy to take the displays of fresh produce for granted – along with the fact that out-of-season produce is available virtually year-round. Pineapples in the Midwest in the middle of winter? Green beans in February?
No problem, if you live near a supermarket. Yet, there’s something to be said for choosing your produce seasonally. That is, focusing your meals around the foods that are naturally at their peak of ripeness.
“Eating foods when nature produces them is what people the world over have done naturally through most of history, before mega-supermarkets dotted the landscape and processed foods became ubiquitous.
Seasonal eating is also a cornerstone of several ancient and holistic medical traditions, which view it as integral to good health and emotional balance.”