News: Where fruits and vegetables are stored may affect health benefits
Updated: Jul. 16, 2019
How do you store your fruits and veggies? If it’s in the dark, you might want to turn on the
How do you store your fruits and veggies? If it’s in the dark, you might want to turn on the light.
According to a new study published in Current Biology, fruits and veggies still respond to their environment up to a week after being harvested.
What does that mean for their health benefits?
‘We found we could use light to coax them to make more cancer-fighting antioxidants at certain times of day,‘ lead researcher Janet Braam said in a press release.
Meanwhile, storing fruits and veggies in the dark could disrupt their daily rhythms.
The researchers concluded that using natural light to promote natural daily rhythms may be a simple way "to promote pest resistance and nutritional value of plant-derived food."
What do you think? Will you be moving your fruits and veggies out of the fridge and on to the windowsill?
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