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With the harvest season calendar, you can easily favor the seasons - try a new taste or color every month! With the help of the highly popular Harvest Season Calendar, you can choose the most delicious, healthiest, ecological and cheapest vegetables from the grocery store. You eat more varied and you save money.
  
10 good reasons to favor the season

- Taste -
Definitely one of the main reasons to favor the high season! During the season, the vegetables are at their best. They are juicy, colorful and ripe. The taste has not suffered from long storage or transportation. Different varieties of seasonal vegetables are also often available, which means a wide range of flavors.

- Ecology -
Producing vegetables during their natural growing season basically requires less energy, such as light and heat. Environmental emissions from the transport and storage of locally produced vegetables are also lower. Of course, domestic natural seasonal delicacies such as mushrooms and berries should be preferred. They are top ecological local food that does not require any external energy to grow.

- Affordability -
Due to higher supply and lower production costs, seasonal vegetables are often cheaper than non-seasonal vegetables. So by favoring the season, you save your wallet.

- Freshness -
Ideally, the vegetable will come directly from the field to the table without intermediate storage. In addition to taste, storage reduces the nutrient content of vegetables. Most vegetables develop nutrients until they are picked. Vegetables picked raw from the other side of the globe and delivered to Finland thus contain considerably less nutrients than a freshly grown control brought directly to the dining table. Studies show that fruits that slowly grow and ripen on the plant are the healthiest.

- Versatility -
Most of the domestic vegetables we eat consist of less than ten different vegetables. In line with the seasons, eating a diet automatically diversifies and new vegetables become available throughout the year. We get to explore new flavors and learn new ways to cook from a variety of fresh vegetables.

- Additive free -
Fruit sold raw may be processed to improve its attractiveness. Seasonal vegetables are at their best and attractive as such. Vegetables produced during their natural growing season can be produced with less use of fertilizers and pesticides. By favoring the season, you are thus reducing the load on your body and the environment with these substances.

- Diversification of supply -
By favoring the seasons, our consumption behavior only makes the offer more diverse. This results in vegetable producers being allowed to sell their products just when they are at their best. As demand increases, producers will be able to diversify their range. With the purchase of seasonal vegetables, the selections of the fruit and vegetable departments of the stores will expand and gain more variety.

- Less waste -
As we learn to use seasonal vegetables, stores don’t have to maintain large stocks of every vegetable year-round. Our demand better meets the supply of farmers. Merchants can rely on the sale of seasonal products and less off-season vegetables can be purchased. In this case, less waste is also generated.

- Compensating for unhealthy choices -
Vegetables, high-fiber grains, and fruits reduce the inflammatory responses to a meal. Continuous eating of the same foods has been suggested as a partial cause of food hypersensitivity. By favoring the seasons, one should eat constantly varied and varied food.

- Valuing food -
By focusing our attention on food production, we learn to value food as well as its production process and producers more. By experimenting with different varieties, we discover how a tremendously different flavors and nuances are hidden in our everyday foods, as in the tomato variety book.