Fresh or Preserved Food

We should try to eat fresh food or food that has been preserved in traditional ways as often as we can.

 

Good Food that is Good for You!

We have been speaking about Nitrates.  Nitrates occur endogenously* in many foods, such as fruit and vegetables.  Nitrates are also used as food additives (purified as Sodium nitrate or unpurified as celery salt or celery juice) in certain processed meats.   

*The plant or organism made them itself, humans produce nitrates in our digestive tracts.

So even through food such as ham or hot dogs that contain nitrates, which  can be consumed safely in the presence of vitamin C; we should also discover what other things were used in making the product and their effect on our health.

 

Another important aspect of this is how healthy the animal or plant was.

 

Plants should be raised in nutrient dense soil and properly prepared. (Yes, that could mean cooking or lacto fermented that Kale!)

 

Animals should be raised humanly and given the proper food for their kind.  

 

This allows the food made from these animals and plants to have the optimum nutrients that makes the food worth eating and/or preserving.

 

We should try to eat fresh food or food that has been preserved in traditional ways as often as we can. For example, salt has traditionally been used to preserve food, long other preservatives.

 

 A good whole of thumb is to never buy anything that has more than 3 ingredients. These ingredients should be compounds that you can pronounce and are familiar with.