I just finished reading Jo Robinson's book, "Eating on the Wild Side, the missing link to optimum health." As you are probably aware, modern fruits and vegetables have been bred over the past 10,000 years for sweetness, large size, uniformity, and ease of harvest and transport; consequently there is a dramatic difference in nutrition between wild and domesticated plants, with wild varieties generally winning by a very large margin. Our foods have not been bred for increased phytonutrients.
Robinson gives a short nutritional history of each group of fruits and vegetables, followed by very practical, research-based, suggestions as to which varieties available in the supermarket and the farmer's market today have the most nutrients. She also suggests methods to store and cook each variety to help maintain, or even increase, nutrients. If you are a gardener, she lists the varieties that are the healthiest.
I really enjoyed it and suggest that, if you want the most bang for your buck from your supermarket shopping, you check-out this book from your local library and give it a read. If you really like it, you may want to buy it for your personal resource library.
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