[Trillium]

These days most tins have a special plastic (invisible) liner that separates food from the metal. Tomatoes, due to their acidic nature, particularly need this.

There is new information that the metal itself is not the potential cause of Alzheimers, but actually the product itself by means of chemical fertilizing, chemical pest control and chemical processing treatment. Which really highlights the need to grow our own organic foods.

[Aunt Sally]

I can believe that Trillium.  Plants don't know the difference between a specific nutrient from an organic feed like comfrey tea or from an artificial feed such as Growmore.  In fact artificial feeds are a pure form of a specific type of nutrient and so called organic ones contain many things we have no idea about.

[arugula]

I take it that the chickpeas don't go mushy on defrosting, do they? I use them quite a lot in chunky weekday lunch salads and would want them to hold the same texture they do coming out of a tin.

Just my observation, but I've found that the cannelini beans cooked to tinned texture are coming out of the freezer slightly mushier than I'd like, so next time I'll cook them slightly al dente which should do the trick, I hope. Chickpeas are working just fine and the butter beans have a much nicer flavour than out of a tin, which is the only way I had ever eaten them before now.

[ThatsNice]

Mr Sainsbury sell them in tetra packs..

[arugula]

That's handy, if you have one closer than 150 miles away.