I never buy Driscoll fruit (particularly strawberries and blueberries) for this very reason. When I used to work at a grocery store, half of the time the Driscoll fruits would be rotten already upon arrival to the store!
There are plenty of self-picking strawberry farms around here anyway. I can guarantee I have the freshest strawberries if I pick them myself.
Yep there’s so many moldy ones already. I took pride in my work and made sure not to put them out for sale, but cannot say the same about some of my coworkers
I got some amazing strawberries in the summer and forgot about them in the freezer for many months. They were a little freezer burned, but I turned them into a SENSATIONAL sorbet, with some glucose syrup infused with mint leaves, a little lime juice, and a whisper of xanthan gum. I use this double-bowl method for making ice creams and sorbets.
I read on it years ago, but I think it helps kill the mold spores.
“It’s not exactly that vinegar itself extends the life of berries. It’s the fact that vinegar is so acidic that it kills or inhibits the growth of a lot of the bacteria and fungus, including mold, that may grow on berries, which makes the fruit last longer,” explains Sean Brady Kenniff, EatingWell’s senior digital food editor. (By the way, this same technique should work to clean just about any fruit, not just berries.)
I did it a couple weeks ago after seeing this tip here. No after taste. They were fine for about 4 days but on day 5 every strawberry was covered in fuzz instead of just one or two.
Every Costco seems to have a mold problem. If you dont eat or freeze stuff from them that can get moldy expect it to within like 3 days. And this has been true of 3 states
Province makes me think you are in Canada, i will say it gets worse the further south you go and i think it’s a heat and humid air in tue big warehouse where everything is kept all together kinda thing. Further north it gets better in the winter and worse in the summer again but i cant escape the bagels getting moldy within like 3 days of buying them and veggies being limp amd rotting within a similar time depending on which ones i got.
I dump them into a sieve and rinse them off before transferring to another bowl. I also remove the squishy ones.
It should keep the mold spores away for a little longer.
Bananas, apples, oranges, and blueberries are the only fruits I find have any shelf life anymore for me. Raspberries and strawberries are terrible. Blackberries are hit or miss.
Get a banana hanger. It provides better airflow and keeps the ethylene gas that bananas emit from stagnating around them. This gas is what ripens the fruit so fast. In fact, you can put other fruits around bananas and they’ll ripen faster as well.
The other benefit is that it helps prevent bruising on the bottom of the bananas and makes them last longer as well.
You can have bananas last for up to 2 weeks with this method.
Haven’t tried the vinegar yet but I store them in an air tight container and throw a bit of paper towel in there for good measure. Lasts at least a week.
You should absolutely wash everything you intend to put in your body. Not only are fruits and vegetables covered with things like pesticides, even when they are totally organic, they were probably fertilized with nitrates which are bad to ingest (and organic pesticides are a thing and not good for humans). And even if that isn’t the case, they grow those things outside like on the ground. There is a reasonable chance at least one animal has pooped or peed on them.
I also noticed that, especially with bananas, when I started washing them as soon as I got home I didn’t get any gnats, because gnats will absolutely lay their eggs on the outside of fruits even at the store.
What can I say, I’ve literally never in my life heard anyone doing that or even recommending it. People just eat the strawberries fresh after buying it from from the berry stand
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