With the advent of freezers, we’re able to preserve our food longer than before. But is there a differencebetween fresh and frozen produce    41    nutrition? Well, it highly depends on the circumstances. Most food youtake off the shelf in a grocery store     42   under-ripe to avoid damage during travel time. This means it hasn’tyet reached its peak nutrition. Furthermore, the minute it is picked, its nutritional content begins to   43   . Whenit finally appears on your dinner table days later, the food may lose up to 50 percent of its nutritional value. Frozenfoods,   44   , are picked when they’re ripe and frozen immediately.   45    the quick freeze process may affectsome of the vitamin content, it essentially locks most of the nutrients in place. Compared with the fresh producethat has been sitting around for days, there’s no doubt that frozen foods contain more nutrition.