Are U for or against CANNED FOOD?

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The canning process destroys some of the food's nutritional content, and also if you look at the list of ingredients on most cans you will find that artificial preservatives etc have been added, as well as a good deal of salt and/ or sugar, which wouldn't be found in the fresh product. There is also the issue of packaging - empty cans contribute a lot to our growing waste problems. Certainly, no one could argue that canned food is as good as fresh. On the other hand, canning is an excellent way to store food for a ling time - literally years in some cases = and having a few tins in the cupboard makes life much easier. With tins you can be sure of always being able to provide a basic meal at short notice - and if fresh produce is hard to get, tinned is a lot better than nothing. So, I wouldn't encourage anyone to rely on tinned food or eat much of it, but I'd hate to without it altogether.