Dried fruit
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I’m having a hard time with dried fruit, what is it and where can it be found in a grocery store? I’ve had dried mango that comes in a bag but it’s super expensive for a small amount. Last phase I used frozen berries for post workout meal and I’d like to continue using it and making a shake post workout, unless you tell me otherwise. The bag of frozen berries have zero added sugar but contain 15g per cup of sugar.
I’m having a hard time with dried fruit, what is it and where can it be found in a grocery store? I’ve had dried mango that comes in a bag but it’s super expensive for a small amount. Last phase I used frozen berries for post workout meal and I’d like to continue using it and making a shake post workout, unless you tell me otherwise. The bag of frozen berries have zero added sugar but contain 15g per cup of sugar.
Dried fruit is dehydrated fruit, which means the water is taken out of it (hydrate = water, so de-hydrate is minus water). It’s exactly the same as beef jerky (dehydrated beef), but for fruit. Dried fruit is in the fruit section of any grocery store and is more expensive (just like beef jerky is more expensive than regular beef) because of the dehydration process. If you watched Nicole’s videos in the nutrition section, especially the one about how to use the food exchange list, you will find the list of fruits you can swap out and exchange, as well as the amount per serving for your meal plan.
Frozen fruit is simply just regular fresh fruit but frozen. As long as you read the ingredients on the package and the only ingredients in the frozen bag of fruit is the fruit itself, then it is no different than eating fresh fruit, it has just been put in a freezer (that is the only difference between fresh fruit and frozen fruit as long as there are no other ingredients added).
So to recap:
Fresh fruit = fruit that has been freshly picked and nothing has been done to it at all
Dried fruit = dehydrated fruit, or fruit with all the water taken out via a dehydrator
Frozen fruit = fresh fruit that has been exposed to temperatures cold enough to freeze the fruit
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