Organic Snacks 101
Snacking, the American pastime. How in the world can you go organic with snack.
Is “snack” even a real word with a definition and everything? Yes. Snack means, “a small portion of food or drink or a light meal, especially one eaten between regular meals.” Somehow it has come to mean “not real food”.
Chips, puffs, candy… anything NOT organic is apparently a snack. So how in the world can there be organic snacks?
Before we can find out why can’t a snack be something natural and fresh we must first look at why a snack tends to be something not good for you. Well, I am not a nutritionist but I have two grown kids and a super busy lifestyle so I can guess it has everything to do with convenience. Snack means sitting in the pantry waiting for fast consumption. It can also mean portable, like keep it in your purse or the car. Not the best environment for organics which are life like and therefore have a life cycle.
By definition preservative help keep things preserved. Real food dies without intervention.
Still there is hope. There are solutions for organic snacks.
For example:Before there were the chemical and toxic preservatives, there were preserves. Maybe you remember your grandmother (or great-grandmother in this day and age) canning peaches. One preserving method is canning which essentially keeps food from being exposed to air, suspending it from the elements and resulting decomposition of exposure.
There is also drying. Take something alive and remove all the water content and the essence of the food is suspended in time with many nutrients and values remaining in tact.
And what about freezing? Strangely, frozen food has gotten a bad name. I wonder who started that? Maybe vested interests in the decidedly not organic but highly profitable processed food market. Actually, when fresh organic food is frozen at the peak of it’s life cycle, it retains it’s nutritional value and organic nature.
And there are undoubtably other ways to make organic snacks which are easy and convenient, the hallmark of a great snack.
But wait! Before you think we will are going to get you spending your weekends using a dehydrator to make banana chips, believe it or not there are some products can find on a store shelf or on the internet that fit the bill.
Check out some of the organic snack options we feature here and live well!
Stacy
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