7 Benefits of Eating Local Foods
Summer is the perfect time to shop your local farmers market for fresh fruits, vegetables and meat. Depending on the size of your community, you may even find baked goods like quiches and muffins or other farm-fresh items, such as yogurt, milk, cheese and eggs. While browsing through locally produced food items is objectively more fun than cruising down grocery store aisles, there are even more benefits to eating local than you might realize. Scroll through the slideshow to discover seven important benefits that come with eating foods produced close to home.
Local food is fresher.
Ever noticed where those grocery store apples came from? Or the processed foods on aisle seven? Most products sold in local supermarkets arrived on a truck that gathered goods from all around the world. While there are arguably a few perks to sourcing from various states and countries, the hard reality is that food that hitches a ride to a new destination will never be as fresh as food plucked right out of the ground in your own neighborhood. In addition to simply being fresh, that farmers market haul you brought home this morning will taste better, too.