The apricot trees are one of the most wanted fruit trees as they have the ability to produce those beautiful and sweet orange colored fruits. The apricot fruits are known to have a high content of beta carotene as well as fiber. Moreover, these fresh apricots are also rich of the vitamin C. To see them for the first time in the season will be like a reminder for you that summer is here. In the area of North America, they can be harvested from May to August. Of course nothing can beat the fresh apricot fruits, not even the canned ones. However, sometimes the canned apricots are the only choice when it is deep in the winter season and you are longing for a bit of the sweet fruit.
The canned apricots are usually made of those mediocre qualities of apricots. These apricots may not pass the fresh quality standard and then they are processed into the canned ones. Before canning, other substances have been added to the apricots in order to enhance the sweetness that it contains so that it can be rather similar in taste with the fresh ones. That would be a disadvantage that we need to know before deciding on getting one of those canned ones.
But there is another disadvantage that all customers must know, that is the possible health risk of consuming these canned fruits. Many factories are using the BPA or bisphenol A to help them with the canning process and thus the BPA has become part of the packaging. BPA is an chemical that has been used for canning fruits since the 1960s. The substance is to protect the cans’ integrity as well as to prevent food contamination by microbial.
At first, no one knows that BPA has its own danger, so the substance is still used until today. Even now, this industrial chemical substance has not be suspended by all countries. Only some countries decided to ban them for being used on baby’s eating utensils as BPA is also used for different household products and also hard plastic bottles. These countries have realized that from the different studies conducted within the last decade, BPA has different health risks for human. In the case of infants, toddler as well as fetuses, it may play an important role to decrease the level brain development and may risk on the behavior problems. As for human of all ages, BPA exposure may increase the risk of cancer.
