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Canned foods tend to have less nutrients compared to fresh or frozen fruits/veggies.
IIRC, frozen actually has the most nutrients because its harvested when its ripest versus fresh produce thats harvested earlier than it should be and "ripens " as its delivered and shelved. Could be wrong, just something I remember hearing.
I prefer fresh to frozen, because of the texture changes.
That's part of it, but I believe the other part is the canning process further depletes some of the nutritional value.
Makes sense, raw produce is more nutrient rich than cooked produce
Yes, but the nutrients in raw are not as available as cooked. They're present in higher quantities, but a lot will pass through undigested.
Calculating how much is destroyed by cooking vs how much is made available is going to depend heavily on the food and nutrients in question.
But I will say that if you need more or less of a nutrient, you will get much further by changing the food vs how it's prepared.
Mostly, but sometimes cooking them can actually increase some values by breaking down cell walls and making nutrients more available (to a point, anyhow).