Comments on: Storing Fresh Fruits and Vegetables http://fitfare.net/2007/03/08/storing-fresh-fruits-and-vegetables/ Healthy Living for the Masses Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:08:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Ashley http://fitfare.net/2007/03/08/storing-fresh-fruits-and-vegetables/#comment-27650 Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:15:43 +0000 http://fitfare.net/2007/03/08/storing-fresh-fruits-and-vegetables/#comment-27650 As a mom of three growing children I found that when I would buy produce before we could consume it the produce would go bad. Doesn’t surprise me seeing as how everything goes bad before you can eat it nowadays. Even if I would juice the produce it did not taste as fresh as the day I brought it home. I researched the reason and found that there is device that works in your refrigerator that will help prolong the shelf life of organic produce plus it kills bacteria. It is the best thing I have ever owned and I think everyone should own one. I found it at www.orderminimate.com its called the Mini Mate.I have had mine for over 60 days and it has already saved me $20.00 which is a fraction of what I paid for it. Has anyone else use this before? As a mom of three growing children I found that when I would buy produce before we could consume it the produce would go bad. Doesn’t surprise me seeing as how everything goes bad before you can eat it nowadays. Even if I would juice the produce it did not taste as fresh as the day I brought it home. I researched the reason and found that there is device that works in your refrigerator that will help prolong the shelf life of organic produce plus it kills bacteria. It is the best thing I have ever owned and I think everyone should own one. I found it at www.orderminimate.com its called the Mini Mate.I have had mine for over 60 days and it has already saved me $20.00 which is a fraction of what I paid for it. Has anyone else use this before?

]]> by: Murdoch http://fitfare.net/2007/03/08/storing-fresh-fruits-and-vegetables/#comment-18494 Sat, 10 Mar 2007 20:04:26 +0000 http://fitfare.net/2007/03/08/storing-fresh-fruits-and-vegetables/#comment-18494 Useful post and I'd broadly agree with your comments except for carrots and citrus fruits, which probably shouldn't be in the fridge. The traditional way of storing carrots is in sand and although that may be too messy or tedious for ordinary use keeping them in a cool, preferably dark, place is fine. It's also essential to keep potatoes in the dark as otherwise they can develop abnormally high levels of alkaloids thus becoming bitter and poisonous where they're green. A useful rough rule of thumb is to keep temperate produce cool but produce from warmer climes warmer. Citrus fruits may develop spots and even spoil of too cold, tomatoes (as you point out) spoil while avocados and bananas may change and simply become unable to ripen properly. And if your lettuce has gone all limp and flaccid then soaking it iced water for a while may revive it. And everything will keep better if it hasn't be cut or brusied. Useful post and I’d broadly agree with your comments except for carrots and citrus fruits, which probably shouldn’t be in the fridge. The traditional way of storing carrots is in sand and although that may be too messy or tedious for ordinary use keeping them in a cool, preferably dark, place is fine. It’s also essential to keep potatoes in the dark as otherwise they can develop abnormally high levels of alkaloids thus becoming bitter and poisonous where they’re green.

A useful rough rule of thumb is to keep temperate produce cool but produce from warmer climes warmer. Citrus fruits may develop spots and even spoil of too cold, tomatoes (as you point out) spoil while avocados and bananas may change and simply become unable to ripen properly. And if your lettuce has gone all limp and flaccid then soaking it iced water for a while may revive it.

And everything will keep better if it hasn’t be cut or brusied.

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