USDA “U.S. Fancy,”

[GoodTaste]

Does "fancy" here mean "highest standard"?

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The advantage of frozen fruits and vegetables is that they usually are picked when they’re ripe, and then blanched in hot water to kill bacteria and stop enzyme activity that can spoil food. Then they’re flash frozen, which tends to preserve nutrients. If you can afford it, buy frozen fruits and vegetables stamped USDA “U.S. Fancy,” the highest standard and the one most likely to deliver the most nutrients. As a rule, frozen fruits and vegetables are superior nutritionally to those that are canned because the canning process tends to result in nutrient loss. (The exceptions include tomatoes and pumpkin.) When buying frozen fruits and vegetables, steer away from those than have been chopped, peeled or crushed; they will generally be less nutritious.

Source: Dr. Weil
https://www.drweil.com/diet-nutrition/nutrition/are-frozen-vegetables-healthy/

 

[Skrej]

Did you read the text you quoted? The answer to your exact question literally follows the word you're asking about in the text!!

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

And did you Google USDA?

 

[Rollercoaster1]

... from those that have been chopped, peeled or crushed; they will generally be less nutritious.

Source: Dr. Weil
https://www.drweil.com/diet-nutrition/nutrition/are-frozen-vegetables-healthy/

It's a typo, I think.

 

[Rover_KE]

What's a typo, rollercoaster?

 

[GoodTaste]

Yes to both #2 and #3.

The problem in understanding is that The U.S. Department of Agriculture is about seirous matters and the word fancy is, to the contray, usually linked to fantastic imagination. I am not sure.

 

[GoesStation]

The problem in understanding is that The U.S. Department of Agriculture is about serious matters and the word fancy is, to the contrary, usually linked to fantastic imagination. I am not sure.

The United States Department of Agriculture's grading system goes back over a hundred years and often uses labels which may look, well, a bit fanciful to today's readers.



My Googling tells me that "super colossal" is not actually a USDA grade. It is, however, an official international size standard for olives.

 

[Rollercoaster1]

What's a typo, rollercoaster?

When buying frozen fruits and vegetables, steer away from those than have been chopped, peeled or crushed; they will generally be less nutritious.

 

[emsr2d2]

It's a typo, I think.

And if you're going to write "It's a typo", you need to quote the original, not the corrected version. The way you wrote it makes it look as if "that" was the typo.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Yes to both #2 and #3.

The problem in understanding is that The U.S. Department of Agriculture is about seirous matters and the word fancy is, to the contray, usually linked to fantastic imagination. I am not sure.

That's one definition of fancy, but it's not the most common definition. We usually use it to mean the opposite of plain, ordinary, blah.