Prof Sarah Berry

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ZOE Science & Nutrition · How to reduce your heart disease, dementia and cancer risk with 12 everyday high-fibre foods | Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall & Prof Sarah Berry · 30 Jul 2026 podcast

So they're normally frozen within about two to three hours of harvest.

So you preserve the natural sugars in there so they taste sweeter.

But also peas are really rich in certain vitamins and minerals that we know can be degraded by either oxygen, so by air or by light.

So vitamin C is a great one.

We know that the more it's exposed to air, the more that it's exposed to light, that it can start to degrade.

You're freezing it straight away.

You're preserving all of that vitamin C. So in many instances, the frozen pea, unless it's the one that you're literally prodding from your garden when you have it fresh, can actually be nutritionally better for you.

Some of these beans, peas, pulses are actually really good sources of protein.

So they'll also keep you full for longer.

You know, carrots are a great example.

Yeah, packed full of fiber, packed full of flavor, brings lots of other nutrients.

Every fruit, vegetable obviously brings different types of other nutrients, micronutrients.

Take beta carotene.

It's what gives the yellowy orange color to a carrot.

It's a precursor for vitamin A. So when you eat carrots, you get a load of beta carotene.

Your body can convert it if it needs to into vitamin A. Vitamin A has a really important role in the functioning of your body.

Both beta carotene and vitamin A are really important in terms of immune response, in terms of our vision, in terms of protecting our eye, in terms of being, particularly beta carotene, a really powerful antioxidant.

We know that if you're getting beta carotene from whole foods, and it's important to caveat not from supplements, that actually you can reduce your risk of certain chronic diseases because of the antioxidant capacity of beta carotene.

That's just one nutrient that's in carrots.

Absolutely.

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