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- inactive, on 06/03/2009, -0/+32I know there's a stigma about canned vegetables, but it really depends on the food. For instance, canned tomatoes are actually very high in vitamins and nutrients.
- redwolfwalker, on 06/03/2009, -0/+24continued..."A more diverse diet can be healthier, while maintaining its Latin identity, and cans can help..In this country, canned food is cheap, albeit processed and loaded with salt. More to the point, cans of food are commonly given away to food drives."
Article on one page: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic ... - redwolfwalker, on 06/03/2009, -0/+20Yes, you are correct, but some people may live in an economic environment where the canned foods can play a part...while reading this article I couldn't help but think of the TV chief "Mr. Food", who's shows can be entertaining in putting together quickie attractive meals.
- wilburdean, on 06/04/2009, -0/+20How can you not believe in canned food? Are you suggesting that canned food does not exist? I assure you that it does!
- gvoakes, on 06/03/2009, -2/+18Canned food needs to be eaten straight from the can. No questions asked.
- Narcism, on 06/04/2009, -0/+14- Preservatives can mean everything from salt, to sulphites, to grape juice, to other natural acids derived from fruits. If the preservatives are natural (with the exception of sulphites, which aren't so good), can it be all that bad? Sure my canned tomatoes come loaded with salt, but it just means i don't need to add any when I'm making pasta sauce.
- Some canned processes retain all the vitamins and minerals of fresh food.
- For someone who lives alone, it's difficult to constantly obtain fresh food, and eat it before it goes bad.
- How much of a difference is there between canned food, and cooking fresh food and eating it the next day? - baiwushi, on 06/03/2009, -0/+13It would be cool to have a show that shows people some of the things they can made from just using canned foods..
- OrangeTide, on 06/04/2009, -1/+13condensed cream of mushroom soup is useful as an ingredient in things like casseroles.
- lava, on 06/04/2009, -0/+12Man, now I want some ***** pupusas. Thanks digg.
- PsychoDaaad, on 06/04/2009, -0/+11You ever try making spaghettios from scratch my good man? I'll take the can, thank you.
- badqat, on 06/04/2009, -0/+10@ solid - now, if someone could figure out how to can hoochies, we'd be rich.
- solid12345, on 06/04/2009, -1/+11Yeah i'm sure urban youth would rather be gardening than driving their low-riders around town picking up hoochies.
- DontHassleHoff, on 06/04/2009, -0/+9Canned food does not mean "less than fresh" in all cases. Every cook knows that canned tomatoes are better than fresh 99% of the time.
It is a sad commentary, though, that we have to teach our immigrants to eat from our unwanted cans because they can't afford fresh produce. Seriously... beets and hearts of palm? No one wants to eat those, canned or not. - CRCulver, on 06/04/2009, -0/+9"I like the idea of neighborhood cooperative gardening, especially in urban areas. Work together, plant together, tend together, harvest together."
So the poor aren't harried enough by long hours for low wages and no benefits, but they are supposed to be gardeners in their spare time? Geez, and you wonder why this idea hasn't caught on. - freshyill, on 06/04/2009, -0/+8Wait, seriously? Latinos aren't used to cooking with canned food? I'm pretty sure this is going to come as news to the folks at Goya.
- askantik, on 06/04/2009, -0/+7Many preservatives, like Narcism said, are just fine. Most canned foods do not have corn syrup in them unless you are buying something like "Peaches in Heavy Syrup," hence the name. I cook a lot and I use canned food all the time. Unless you got a farmer's market where you can buy olives or pre-cooked chickpeas, etc... Fresh is best, but this article isn't about what's best-- it's about making do with the ***** you got.
- jbcoyle, on 06/03/2009, -10/+17I dont believe in can food! take the time and make it from scratch..after all, it is what you feed your body!
- OrangeTide, on 06/04/2009, -0/+6frozen tomatoes? I think not.
- SkippyDoorknob, on 06/04/2009, -0/+6It's not necessarily a matter of affordability. The convenience factor is probably the biggest issue. You can get a month's worth of food in one shopping trip. Not everyone can head to the market every couple days for fresh food.
- m4ngo, on 06/04/2009, -0/+6Imagine if Gordon Ramsay was there. God that'd be awesome...
- saltydawkins, on 06/04/2009, -0/+6I lived in McGrath, Alaska for a while. It is an absolutely stunning place to live... and fresh oranges were $5.00 EACH when they were available (which was rarely). Without canned fruits and vegatables the available diet would be a lot like a lifetime of Atkins.
- askantik, on 06/04/2009, -0/+5Hearts of palm aren't too good, but I like beets. And I'm an [amateur] cook and I prefer fresh tomatoes, except I'm sometimes too lazy to cut them and wait for the extra cooking time. That's usually my motivation for using canned.
- jeexbit, on 06/04/2009, -0/+5Goya rules...
- Bobby1978, on 06/04/2009, -0/+5There was this food show a while back where a woman goes around homes and describes the rights and wrongs of what the family eats. She got round to describing why canned tomatoes were actually better than fresh tomatoes because it had more vitamins and such. Well, this one family had a complete health nut of a father/husband, with a cucumber shoved so far up his ass, he absolutely refuses to consume anything other than fresh. Should've seen the look on his face upon hearing the tomato thing.
- OLTP, on 06/04/2009, -1/+6Beans are decent from cans. Much easier and faster than soaking and boiling for hours.
But cream of mushroom soup? Yuck. - republicker, on 06/04/2009, -1/+5Are these people mentally handicapped?
- Narcism, on 06/04/2009, -0/+4My understanding is that canned tomato is cooked and canned whilst red, whereas the average tomato is ripened on the way to the grocery store using ethylene. There are exceptions such as buying tomatoes on a vine, though.
- Narcism, on 06/04/2009, -0/+4@Suzilla
I think you're confusing Processed Food Product with Canned Food. We're not talking about Hot Pocket filling, Processed Cheese or Hot-dogs here, we're talking about veggies/fruit that have been precooked (or not) and given natural preservatives. If it is indeed the case that you have these two concepts confused, I don't know what you're trying to say.
There are canned food that contain processed food, like ground up chicken/ham that's stuffed with nitrites, but, they are not in the majority. - Coffeedemon, on 06/04/2009, -0/+4They're better for sauce that fresh in most cases since the tomatoes are fully ripened then put in the can. The fresh ones are often picked prior to ripening and then shipped in the hopes they'll be ready when they arrive. Same goes for a number of different vegetables.
- tejota, on 06/04/2009, -1/+5Dugg for spelling Colombia correctly.
- whiplash65, on 06/04/2009, -0/+4"You didn't open that can right, you DONKEY!"
- baggler, on 06/04/2009, -0/+4Who in the hell has the time to make all their food from scratch?
- phosphite, on 06/04/2009, -0/+3Canned Cheeseburger?
- strictnein, on 06/04/2009, -2/+5A wise Latino doesn't need to use canned food.
- beautifulady, on 06/04/2009, -0/+3Collective effort. I've seen cooperative gardening products in poor areas, and they work. Not only that, but they're a lot more attractive than garbage dumps. No one puts long hours into the garden, but it does take an effort. A lot of people aren't working at all, and they have the time. You can also buy seeds with food stamps. There are a lot of successful gardening projects in urban areas.
http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/field/2004/37627/ar ...
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bal-te.t ...
Do a little reading before you condemn a good idea. - billricardi, on 06/04/2009, -0/+3There is no one right or wrong answer to 'is fresh best'. Best for who, you have to ask yourself.
If you have your own garden and a lot of time on your hands, sometimes you can do something all fresh, all organic. Wonderful. But if you don't have that kind of time or space for a garden and the prep work involved, you might end up putting canned tomatoes, frozen peas and corn, and fresh carrots in your veggie stew. And there's nothing wrong with that!
Getting the facts out there about the real pros and cons of canned food is a GOOD thing. Facts are never bad. This kind of effort should be applauded, as removing the stigma from things that will save people time and money gives them more of a chance to live their lives how they want to. - AxsToro, on 06/04/2009, -0/+3Traditional Hispanics aren't used to it. When I went to visit some family in El Salvador, all the produce was grown. Nothing was canned there. No wonder the food was amazing... now if they only had AC...
- Coffeedemon, on 06/04/2009, -0/+3It is fine to spend hours at home tending a garden after you've left a job that requires no physical effort. Most of the people in the lower economic brackets don't have that luxury. Do you think people are going to want to come home from 12 hours of manual labour to tend their friggin potato garden all night?
- Coffeedemon, on 06/04/2009, -1/+4Good point. I remember living back home. Finding uncanned vegetables in Newfoundland many parts of the year was a little difficult (unless they were shipped from lord knows where). Poster could make due with some perspective from people who don't live next door to a year round farmer's market.
- Jaime2000, on 06/04/2009, -0/+3I am hispanic, and I have only one thing to say...
HANDS OFF THE RICE! - jaamzw, on 06/04/2009, -0/+3it will make you fart more?
- futimazar, on 06/04/2009, -0/+3A mi, mi gusta mi pupusa!!
- JCEEZ, on 06/04/2009, -0/+3Latinos are the cooks at 90% of the restaurants I go to....
- Narcism, on 06/04/2009, -0/+3@Suzilla
Citation needed.
I have mine ready:
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To prevent the food from being spoiled before and during containment, quite a number of methods are used: pasteurization, boiling (and other applications of high temperature over a period of time), refrigeration, freezing, drying, vacuum treatment, antimicrobial agents that are natural to the recipe of the foodstuff being preserved, a sufficient dose of ionizing radiation, submersion in a strongly saline, acid, base, osmotically extreme (for example very sugary) or other microbe-challenging environments.
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Do I know specific canned fruit/veggies? No, but wikipedia suggests they exist. - Narcism, on 06/04/2009, -0/+3@robert
Sodium Chloride is table salt, Robert... If you are indeed referring to NaCl, table salt is perceived on the palate.
Chemicals? I'll assume you're talking about bad chemicals. For now, I'm going off what's in my pantry.
My canned peas have, peas, water, sugar and salt.
My canned beans have calcium chloride, a common salt (which is saltier than NaCl, pereivable on the palate). - matthewf01, on 06/04/2009, -0/+2Just make sure you rinse those canned beans.... helps with the farts.
- Narcism, on 06/04/2009, -0/+2@Suzilla
I understand. Thank you. - inactive, on 06/04/2009, -0/+2bleargh! The only good thing to come out of a can are San Marzano tomatoes. Ohh, and Beefaroni.
- BionicPimp, on 06/04/2009, -0/+2i heard a quote once that made me laugh:
"Cream of Mushroom is america's bechamel" - askantik, on 06/04/2009, -0/+2I'm talking about canned vegetables and fruit, not meat (since I don't eat it). I'm also not talking about processed foods. I mean, technically all foods are processed, but in the popular sense of the word, I'm not talking about them. Many preservatives are bad, many are good. For example, EDTA and sodium benzoate = not too good.
Good (read: OK, not overly harmful) preservatives that are VERY common include tocopherols, citric acid, ascorbic acid, salt... As for sodium... Sodium isn't "bad" for you on the same level as HFCS or hydrogenated oils. And finally, as someone else already pointed out, any sodium in the food doesn't have to be added during cooking.
P.S. I do most of my shopping for canned goods at my local Kroger. -
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