Is Frozen Produce Healthier Than Fresh?

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.4 • 7.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

You’ve likely stood in the grocery aisle wondering—what’s actually healthier: fresh or frozen produce? And when it comes to salt, should you stick with regular or go for pink Himalayan? Dr. Sanjay Gupta breaks it down, so you know exactly what to grab next time you hit the store. Chasing Life is a production of CNN Podcasts. Our podcast is produced by Eryn Mathewson, Jennifer Lai, Grace Walker, Lori Galaretta, Jesse Remedios, Sofia Sanchez, Kyra Dahring, and Madeleine Thompson. Andrea Kane is our medical writer, our senior producer is Dan Bloom, Amanda Sealy is our showrunner, Dan Dzula is our technical director, and the executive producer of CNN Podcasts is Steve Lickteig. With support from Jamus Andrest, Jon Dianora, Haley Thomas, Alex Manasseri, Robert Mathers, Leni Steinhardt, Nichole Pesaru, and Lisa Namerow. Special thanks to Ben Tinker and Nadia Kounang of CNN Health and Wendy Brundige. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to paging Dr. Gupta.
0:04.6	As you know, this podcast is one of my favorite podcasts.
0:09.0	Because the best health conversations that I've heard often start with simple, honest questions.
0:17.0	And that's what we try and address here each week.
0:20.0	Kira's back with us. What do we have first? And that's what we try and address here each week.
0:21.9	Kira's back with us.
0:22.9	What do we have first?
0:29.6	So first up today, this listener has a question sparked by a recent Chasing Life episode.
0:33.7	And honestly, it kind of has me thinking back to that conversation, too.
0:34.7	Take a listen.
0:42.5	I'm following up on your episode with Dr. Tim Specter, and he talks about 30 vegetables.
0:45.2	What would be those 30 vegetables?
0:49.5	And are frozen vegetables just as good as fresh vegetables?
0:57.2	I've heard that they're better hold their nutrients, vitamins, et cetera. Thank you. I look forward to hearing a podcast answering these questions. This is a really good question. Are frozen vegetables actually
1:05.3	healthy or are they just plan B when fresh isn't available? I'm going to tell you the answer to that,
1:11.2	plus really dig into what Dr. Specter meant about 30 vegetables
1:15.0	right after this quick break.
1:20.4	Okay, let's start with the 30 vegetable part of this.
1:24.1	Here is a quick refresher of that Chasing Life episode with Dr. Tim Specter.
1:28.4	What I'm trying to do is give myself the room so I can have 30 different plants during my week.
1:36.4	And that's that diversity of plants, which I think is probably the most crucial rule for nutrition.
1:41.3	Okay, so what does that mean? First of all, it does not mean you need to
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