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What's Healthier: Peaches or Nectarines? The Market Won't Tell You
19.08.2024 17:34
Summer is not over yet and the market is full of seasonal fruits, including peaches, nectarines and other stone fruits.
From all this abundance, you need to choose the most useful. Surely everyone thought about this when choosing between peaches and nectarines.
But is there a difference and is it worth believing the myths that roam the Internet?
Popular myth
There is a persistent belief that the peach is a natural fruit.
And nectarine is a hybrid, created by mixing plum and peach. Therefore, it is healthier to choose a peach.
In fact, a nectarine is the same as a peach, and its only difference is its smooth skin.
Moreover, it is not a hybrid, but a fruit obtained by selection. After all, even on classic peach varieties, due to cross-pollination, fruits with smooth, rather than velvety skin sometimes appear.
Which is more useful?
Both are useful because the difference in the amount of organic acids and microelements is minimal. They may differ in sugar and fructose content, but in all other respects the organic acids there are almost the same, so there is no big difference, - dispelled the popular myth in society doctor Moisenko.
Therefore, when choosing between the same fruits, you can safely be guided by your taste preferences, without worrying about the amount of vitamins.
