Do you eat better food than you did growing up?
We now see food in the shops that really are out of date due to being stored for months and then put on the counters for us tto eat, ie fruit such as Banana’s in december , the minute you get them home they turn black within a day or so, even potatoes seem to not taste as good as they once did, and the list goes on ,
even frozen foods are something to think about, ie peas all as one solid ice pack and not seperated as peas should be/ :Fish from the frozen counter “again little or no taste” are we being taken for a ride when it comes to are eating?
And what are we doing to our bodies,???strong text
are we not trying hard enough to feed ourselves healthy food?
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Although it’s nice for food to taste fresh, it can be just as nutritious when stored for a while. Our ancestors knew this because they relied on ways to preserve foids as long as possible through long winters.
Certainly not better but I would say more choice today. Being born during WWII when rationing was imposed on the population, food was non adventurous, but it was wholesome and nutritious with tendencies to be on the boring side. Being raised by my paternal grandparents who ran two pubs, plenty of black market food arrived on our tabel so we never went without. It was the same with our pawnbrokers where all sorts of unofficial exchanges took place under the counter, and I’m sure food also changed hands for the right consideration 
Honestly, I don’t know what kind of food one can reasonably expect to buy given that the majority of customers tend to be very price-conscious. I definitely eat better food today than when I was young. Back then there was no information about how the food was produced and, in view of the general shortage of food, people weren’t critical about food quality. They were lucky when they managed to get some fruits and vegetable in the shops. There was no variety at all. You may have found some apples, potatoes, carrots, and cabbage but that was basically it. Fish from the oceans may have been less contaminated but fish was not on offer regularly.
I think that once you are over 70 the time for worrying about what you eat or whether it is good for you has long gone.
What I eat is only what I like, have never liked green veggies so have never eaten any (except peas) much prefer chips.
But I still like fresh vegetables…