International Canned Food Day: Beyond the Clichés

🥫 It’s Tin Can Day! A great opportunity to highlight a few little-known facts. 

Canning is a traditional process that anyone can do at home: all you need is an airtight container and heat, and you’re good to go. 

And yet, a lot of people think canned foods contain preservatives.   

👉 That’s not true! Canned foods do not contain any preservatives.   

🥕 Vegetables, water, sometimes spices. Nothing else.  

The process preserves flavor and nutritional qualities and allows you to enjoy vegetables harvested at peak ripeness and processed quickly after harvesting. Their nutritional value is equivalent to that of fresh vegetables stored for several days*.  

🌍 A major environmental advantage that is often overlooked 

Canned food can be stored at room temperature. 

– No cold chain to maintain. 

– Long shelf life (up to 2 to 5 years), meaning less food waste.  

Energy efficiency, nutritional benefits, accessibility: canned food is not a relic of the past.  

It is a solution for the future, already in our cupboards.  

“Fruits and Vegetables in the Diet: Determinants of Consumption”, INRA (French National Institute for Agronomic Research), November 2007.