Turn your nose up at canned peaches or prunes? Think again. Tinned fruit is cheap and can be nutritious. Here, we rank the ...

I'm glad to say tinned fruit does count towards the recommended 5-a-day fruit intake of fruit and vegetables. It's a good source of fibre, as well as some disease-protective phytochemicals and ...

Likewise, with tinned food, most fruit and vegetables are canned within four hours of picking, says the Association of European Producers of Steel for Packaging (Apeal). Once sealed inside the tin ...

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Tinned fruit, on the other hand, is picked at peak ripeness and then canned in a matter of hours. “They are more ripe, which will have some benefits,” notes Prof Kuhnle.