Frozen assets

CONTRARY to popular belief, frozen fruit is as good for you as newly ‐bought fresh produce.

Professor Gunter Kuhnle, a nutrition ex ‐pert from the Universi ‐ty of Reading, ex ‐plained that levels of vitamin C in fruit, which is essential for maintaining healthy skin and bones, fall by 50 per cent in just a couple of days.

The interval between picking and consuming fruit is usually even longer, he pointed out, while natural enzymes found in fruit can also cause nutrient levels to drop, resulting in loss of colour and flavour.

Freezing, in contrast, can preserve nutrients almost immediately, Professor Kughnle said.

First, the fruit is blanched by briefly ex ‐posing it to boiling wa ‐