Cool Veggie Guide

Here’s a really cool website I was sent to by a buddy on a Yahoo! group: Canned Veggies. Though the page is the home of the Canned Vegetable Council, there’s lots of good information here about uncanned veggies, too.

There are veggie bios that talk about how some of our favorite vegetables got to be so popular, nutrition information on the canned stuff and a slightly amazing array of recipes using canned vegetables.

I’m a big canned veggie naysayer, since I think a lot of the products (green beans, especially) taste more like can than the food that’s packed inside them, but it is true that canned veggies are better than no veggies at all, and they are packed when the food is ripe, so you probably aren’t losing a whole lot of nutrients that way. Just watch out for the salt content! And eat fresh when you can.