Growing of off season vegetables in my knowledge don't have any negative effect on health, instead of any negative effect on health it provides the required vegetable to the consumer, although at some higher price. Such vegetables are not harmful unless some excessive chemicals used during its course of production. Growing of offseasons is very useful to marginal farmer, as it ensures their livelihood security.

Growing of off season vegetables in my knowledge don't have any negative effect on health, instead of any negative effect on health it provides the required vegetable to the consumer, although at some higher price. Such vegetables are not harmful unless some excessive chemicals used during its course of production. Growing of offseasons is very useful to marginal farmer, as it ensures their livelihood security.

Dear Nafees,

I think you are right, but I don"t believe that they have negatives on health. instead I can say they have minimum beneficial effects on human health. this can be mainly due to artificially conditions applied for off-season production of agri foods that greatly can influence their nutritional value, such as antioxidants, carotenoids, enzymes and .....

Off-season fruits and vegetables are not harmful, it is less beneficial. It is not clear, how and why it is less beneficial.

These are less in calories?

Less in nutrients?

Less in vitamin?

Or there is something extra that decrease the beneficial effects?

In Vegetables and fruits their nutritional value is related to some factors including: antioxidant molecules and enzymes (carotenoids, phenolics and polyphenols, ascorbic acid, chlorophyll, and fatty acids), vitamines,mineral nutrients, fiber, organic acids, amino acids and protein,

off season products are less in these substances

regards

The taste of fruits and vegetables is more tasty and taste and the nutritional value is higher than if it was off-season, because the conservation and the addition of preservatives change their taste and reduce their nutritional value and be harmful to health "if added to concentrations higher than allowed

Respected Fathima Faiq,

Thank you for your comment.

Do you know about any such study that may have analysed the percent decrease in nutrients, calories or taste?

I will be great full, if you share such research paper(s).

Regards

M. Nafees

Off season fruits and vegetables contains more residue of pesticides in comparion to main season. Thats why they are good for health. Off season fruits and vegetables are more prone to attack of insect pest.

I think the off_season fruit is not harmful but they have less benefit .Well we need some fruit in large amount in certain season for example we need orange in winter because it contain vitamin C that can help with influenza on the other hand we require watermelon in summer that contain large amount of fluid that help us in the hot weather

These fruit still benefit in all season but have less effect than that of there original season

Off season means annuals not perrinials

No sir, off-season means a vegetable/fruit grown in summer as well as in winter (green house). For example as shown in the attached picture.

Thank you "very much" to you, Nafees Muhammad with appreciation and respect

Off season fruits and vegetables are more prone to incidence of insect pest and sprayed with pesticides to manage theses . There fore, off season fruits and vegetables contains more residue of pesticides in comparison to main season. Thats why they are not good for health.

There's no such aspects of harmfulness of off season vegetables. This is only method by which we can enhance farmer income. Quality parameters mainly controlled by genes somewhat environment. So I don't think that off season vegetables have any harmful affect.

I don't agree that offseason vegetable fruits are harmful compared to seasonal ones. the differences are in the growing environment. protected cultivation for example provide good growing environment and enabled the grower to increase his income and provide the consumers with many offseason vegetables. However, farm management will determine to what level agrochemicals will be applied during the production process. good agricultural practices (GAP) contribute to the rationalization of using such chemicals.