I really like this question.
I love to eat mangoes whenever I can get them, but they are often imported.
Is it okay to eat foods from other places, even when it's not the right season here?
Okay.
There's a big trend.
It's out there.
It's been out there for a while, and that trend is eating in season and not eating foods out of season.
But there's something to understand about that.
This is really important.
First of all, if it's a healthy food and it's out of season, you do want to eat it.
You do want to, even if it was picked from 5,000 miles away, you know, imported, you do want to consume it.
It has health benefits.
Health benefits that are very important for our human body that we shouldn't be lacking.
Now, there's a big argument out there that says, well, these fruits are picked unripe or these foods are picked unripe.
They travel a long distance.
It's not where you're normally in your environment that you actually live and breathe in.
So it's lacking that kind of energy.
You're not in the proper environment.
That's nonsense.
And I say that's nonsense for a couple of reasons.
Kings and queens and dukes and earls and barons lived the longest in the old days.
There was a reason for that.
All their food was imported.
all season, all year long, it was imported. So when commoners and paupers were in the fields
and they just had what's left of their grain, or they had scraps and dehydrated meat scraps,
or they had, you know, who knows what else they were eating back centuries and centuries ago,
and things were really bleak because nothing was in season. So they had a few things, you know,
You know, canning and jarring wasn't really that popular in the real older days and became more popular as centuries went on.
And that was helpful.
But what happened was people got rickets and they got severe vitamin C deficiencies.
And they got the combination of, you know, scurvy and they got the combination of vitamin C deficiency, the rickets.
But that's just some of the illnesses that would succumb because they didn't have imported food.
So they suffered most of the year.
and you know like i said on the other's flip side of it kings and queens would get all their food
imported during hard times they had grapes from other you know places they had raisins from other
other countries they you know filled with iron filled with um you know vitamin c they had um
not only just dried fruits but fresh fruit fruits that were picked earlier and brought to them
this was how they lived longer and kept healthier and this makes a difference now there's something
to understand that's really important about this question if you're afraid to eat a mango because
it's imported and it was picked early understand that even if it's picked early as long as it
ripens that means it wasn't picked too early that's very critical to know if something's picked
too early, it will refuse to ripen. There's an automatic button inside that vegetable or fruit
automatically there that discards it so you can't eat it. So it will be ripe if it's ripe,
and then it's safe to eat. That's the bottom line. That's one thing. Another thing is
if you do eat an imported fruit like a mango and here, you should feel good about it because it was
picked and ripe at one other part of the world. So what if you went on a vacation? Let me ask you
this question. Everybody's asking me these questions. I'm going to ask you this question.
What if you went on a vacation and you went somewhere and you went to France and, you know,
or you went to Italy or wherever, Spain, you went to Spain and they had in the South, you know,
Southern Spain, and they had these beautiful avocados there. Are you going to not eat the
avocado? Are you going to eat it? See, it's ripe there. You're a human being. It's ready. Are you
going to say, no, I'm from a different part of the world. I'm from a different part of the country.
I can't eat this avocado right now. It's not in season where I come from.
I can't. It's pretty funny. No, you're going to eat it and it's going to be really good for you.
See?
So it really doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
The bottom line is, yes, don't be afraid of those mangoes.
They offer so much.
They help people sleep.
They're filled with beta carotene.
That beta carotene is not going to change.
It's not going to change just because you're on a different part of the world,
in a different part of the world,
and it's picked somewhere else and brought to you, imported,
and then ripens beautifully.
and then you eat it and get all that beta carotene
and all that vitamin C that your body's going to love you for.
That doesn't make any sense.
So eating in season is great when it's abundant and it's around you.
Yes, absolutely.
When it's not around you as much
and the seasonal fruits and vegetables are starting to decline
and they're becoming imported,
still you should partake in them.
That's an awesome question.
It got me giggling over here.
Thanks for that great question.
Thank you.
