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Bruce[_28_]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2018 09:15:54 -0400, wrote:

>On Mon, 12 Mar 2018 22:11:48 +1100, Bruce >
>wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 12 Mar 2018 22:00:24 +1100, FMurtz >
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Why are almost all frozen berries as sour as all get out?
>>
>>I don't really understand that sentence, but I find almost all
>>supermarket fruits to sour. Especially berries, peaches, apricots,
>>nectarines, plums often too.
>
>Most ripe fruit, especially berries, won't hold up well during
>shipping so they're harvested while still green.
>However berries for freezing typically don't need to be shipped, they
>are frozen in the field, so they would be picked fully ripened. For
>processed crops like frozen and canned the factory is transported to
>the fields in large semi trailers. If frozen fruit is sour it's time
>to change brands.

When it comes to fruit, I only buy fresh mangos and lychees anymore.
There, sourness never seems to be a problem. But never peaches or
nectarines.