Do you think a diet that has a high percentage of food from cans is healthy?

i don't think a diet on canned food is healthy cos it's preserved and the ingredients aren't freshly prepared.you should try getting fresh vege n meat from the market.

No it's not, canned food at not healthier than fresh ones. Simply because they have high concentrations of preservatives to keep them fresh and for longer shelf-life. Why not buy those in packs? Or if not, those with expiry dates which are closer to manufacturing dates. It may mean that the amount of preservatives are not very much. Fresh fruits are good. But if you keep on eating canned food. Well, it isn't healthy at all.

While tinned foods are quite high in salt, the more conerning issue is that they have the lowest nutritional value of any preparation/processing. In order from most to least nutritious: fresh produce from your (or a freind's) garden or a farmer's market; frozen; "fresh" from the supermarket; and canned. Why does frozen come before supermarket-fresh, you ask? Because the "fresh" produce in most large supermarkets is over a week old by the time it reaches the shelves, and vitamins start leaching from produce soon after they are picked. Most frozen produce are flash-frozen, preserving far more of the nutrients. Many North Americans - who get more than enough food, but not always enough nutrients - don't notice the ill efrects this has on their general well-being because they don't know any better. If your body is accustomed to a particular diet, even if it's potato chips and cookies, it will get used to functioning at a lower-than-ideal level - ideal being the level it could function at with all necessary nutrients and appropriate exercise. Health is more than just not being sick. But no matter how you look at it, tinned foods are among the least healthful to eat. ~Sara

I do not believe that canned food is healthy as it needs to have preservatives in it to keep it "fresh" so to say. I do not eat much canned food at all. Even if you eat the fresh fruit servings with it it is not healthy cause it is the preservatives that you need to be concerned aobut.

I am not sure how healthy canned food is. I just checked a can of lentils and the ingredients include, salt, calcium chloride, and disodium edta. I use canned foods often. I am a homemaker and cook for myself and my family, and I rely on canned foods when I don't have time to get to the farmer's market. I don't know how realistic it is to cook from fresh whole ingredients on a daily basis unless you have a full kitchen staff working for you. I haven';t heard of any studies that have proven canned food to be unhealthy. If anyone know anything, please let me know.