Food Miles: What Do They Mean?

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Food miles are an interesting development of cheap air
and sea travel, gone is the day when wearing your attractive loincloth
you would wander up to the nearest tree, pluck an apple and eat it as
fresh and as vibrant as it could be.

Now our
food takes a longer journey from tree or earth to plate, I feel its
important to realise that living foods are firstly vital and secondly
losing their power to give health benefits from the moment they are
picked. In some cases out of season foods are delivered frozen by sea
freight or rushed over by air so we can enjoy a wider range of choice
throughout the year. We are based in the UK so we enjoy bananas from
the equator, apples from South Africa and Kiwi fruits from New Zealand.
Although very enticing, what are these foods losing on the way? This is what we think, we know fresh fruit and
vegetables are good for us because of the healing power of the
nutrients within, some nutrients are known about, the vitamins and
minerals, some micro nutrients are yet to be discovered and their full
benefits charted. But you can bet one thing! These nutrients are
FRAGILE and they are live. Therefore common sense would indicate that
foods are best eaten as fresh as possible and, importantly, unfrozen,
un-processed and not heat treated unless necessary! Isn’t it striking
that we are the only species on the planet with a catalogue of illness
and we’re also the only one that cooks and stores food.


We also recommend enjoying the art of juice and smoothie
making as this takes uncooked fresh fruit and vegetables extracts the
goodness raw and uncooked and supplies your body with the nutrients it
needs!

What can you do? We recommend tracking
down your local farmers market, often good here are very reasonably
priced and direct from farmer to you with minimal time and process
between. Brilliant! Also shop for locally grown produce as a matter of
habit, this will ensure the freshest of
produce
Food
miles are an interesting development of cheap air and sea travel, gone is the day when wearing your attractive loincloth you would wander up to the nearest tree, pluck an apple and eat it as fresh and as vibrant as it could be.Now our food takes a longer journey from tree or earth to plate, I feel its important to realise that living foods are firstly vital and secondly losing their power to give health benefits from the moment they are picked. In some cases out of season foods are delivered frozen by sea freight or rushed over by air so we can enjoy a wider range of choice throughout the year. We are based in the UK so we enjoy bananas from the equator, apples from South Africa and Kiwi fruits from New Zealand. Although very enticing, what are these foods losing on the way?This is what we think, we know fresh fruit and vegetables are good for us because of the healing power of the nutrients within, some nutrients are known about, the vitamins and minerals, some micro nutrients are yet to be discovered and their full benefits charted. But you can bet one thing! These nutrients are FRAGILE and they are live. Therefore common sense would indicate that foods are best eaten as fresh as possible and, importantly, unfrozen, un-processed and not heat treated unless necessary! Isn’t it striking that we are the only species on the planet with a catalogue of illness and we’re also the only one that cooks and stores food.We also recommend enjoying the art of juice and smoothie making as this takes uncooked fresh fruit and vegetables extracts the goodness raw and uncooked and supplies your body with the nutrients it needs!What can you do? We recommend tracking down your local farmers market, often good here are very reasonably priced and direct from farmer to you with minimal time and process between. Brilliant! Also shop for locally grown produce as a matter of habit, this will ensure the freshest of produce.

Written by : Robert