Fruits and vegetables are packed with essential vitamins, minerals, fiber, and phytochemicals. Because of this, eating plenty of fruits and vegetables everyday can help reduce your risk of many different illnesses, including diabetes and various types of cancer.
There is at least nine different families of fruits and vegetables that exist, each with potentially hundreds of different plant compounds that are beneficial to health. Eating a variety of types and colors of produce in order to give your body the mix of nutrients it needs, ensures a greater diversity of beneficial plant compounds.
Although consumption of fruits and vegetables in their 'unmodified' state is more strongly associated with better mental health compared to cooked, canned or processed fruit and vegetables, a Wholesometarian's approach is to consume the most wholesome within their environment. If can or frozen is your best option, the benefits will far out weight opting to consume processed fake food.