How to provide body with essential vitamins in coldweather, when there is a shortage of fresh vegetables, fruits and berries? This is what in an interview with NEWS.am Medicine, told dietician and endocrinologist Hasmik Abovyan.

«Frozen fruits and vegetables are good if they have preserved the vitamins», she said. In home conditions I tis practically impossible to preserve a large number of useful properties of any fruit. A big quantity of nutrients is lost both during heat treatment and slow freezing.

But do not despair, because you can buy in stores frozen foods that have been frozen immediately, in a few seconds. Here the main issue is, that in home conditions fruits and vegetables are frozen within a few hours, they practically lose their useful properties. But the manufacturers have other conditions of freezing. If it is a technically well equipped factory, then there, in specialized modern refrigerators, any products are frozen instantly, preserving their vitamins, so necessary at winter time, by almost 100%.

"Although it is not available to everyone in our country, but I would definitely advise buying frozen food for winter from stores," noted the dietician, adding, that many diseases can be avoided by including in your diet frozen fruits, berries and vegetables.