{"id":61105,"date":"2025-08-23T08:19:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T22:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=61105"},"modified":"2025-08-23T08:19:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T22:19:51","slug":"are-blueberries-really-as-healthy-as-theyre-claimed-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=61105","title":{"rendered":"Are Blueberries Really As Healthy As They\u2019re Claimed to Be?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61106\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Blueberries-Fresh_vs_Frozen.jpg\" alt=\"Blueberries-Fresh vs Frozen\" width=\"1254\" height=\"836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Blueberries-Fresh_vs_Frozen.jpg 1254w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Blueberries-Fresh_vs_Frozen-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Blueberries-Fresh_vs_Frozen-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Blueberries-Fresh_vs_Frozen-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Blueberries pack a powerful punch of nutrients and health benefits. Brimming with antioxidants and phytochemicals, blueberries can boost brain and heart health, combat cancer, manage diabetes, and even protect your skin. But they can also be expensive, especially fresh. Are they worth the cost? Are they okay to eat frozen? And should you worry about pesticides?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foodrevolution.org\/blog\/are-blueberries-healthy\">https:\/\/foodrevolution.org\/blog\/are-blueberries-healthy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Tom: Although Goji Berries have 10 times and cacao has 40 times the antioxidant power . That&#8217;s why one of the tastiest and most antioxidant snack you can have is here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthelicious.com.au\/ChocoFruit-Slice.html\">https:\/\/www.healthelicious.com.au\/ChocoFruit-Slice.html<\/a> Or if you prefer Macadamia Nuts, try this one:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthelicious.com.au\/ChocolateAndMacadamiaRockyRoadSlice.html\">https:\/\/www.healthelicious.com.au\/ChocolateAndMacadamiaRockyRoadSlice.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both absolutely NAIL my sweet tooth craving!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blueberries pack a powerful punch of nutrients and health benefits. Brimming with antioxidants and phytochemicals, blueberries can boost brain and heart health, combat cancer, manage diabetes, and even protect your skin. But they can also be expensive, especially fresh. Are they worth the cost? Are they okay to eat frozen? And should you worry about &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=61105\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Are Blueberries Really As Healthy As They\u2019re Claimed to Be?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61107,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61105\/revisions\/61107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}