- It is important to include foods in your diet that are grown at the same time of the year you eat them.
- Eating seasonally is important, and carries benefits to your health, the planet, and your wallet.
- The biggest benefit of eating seasonally is that you'll save money on food. When you buy what's in season, you buy food that's at the peak of its supply, and costs less to farmers and distribution companies to harvest and get to your supermarket.
- The best consequence of eating seasonally is that you get the best tasting, healthiest food available.
- The food is grown closer to you so it doesn't spoil on its trip, it's harvested at the peak of its season and sold during its season, before it spoils. Ideally, this means you're getting fruits and vegetables that haven't had time to lose their flavour or their health benefits by sitting in a shipping container for a trip across the ocean.
- Foods that are out of season have to be shipped from around the world to get to you, usually picked before the peak of their flavor in order to survive the long trip (or be allowed to mature while they travel) to your local supermarket. As a result, they're much more expensive because of the time, the distance, and the sheer number of people involved with getting those food items to you that need to be paid.
- Your diet gets more variety.
Seasonality charts are out there but it's annoying having to look at it and do research before going to the supermarket. Something featuring in the supermarket would be useful or potentially something that can be carried around in your wallet or purse.
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