On Mon, 12 Mar 2018 15:19:18 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2018-03-12 2:51 PM, Bruce wrote:
>> On Mon, 12 Mar 2018 09:15:54 -0400, wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>
>I live in a fruit belt. I can get fresh raspberries, strawberries,
>blueberries, rhubarb, sweet cherries, sour cherries, peaches and more
>fresh from farms within a few miles of home. Fresh local produce is
>always much better than imported fruit. I love mangoes, but it is next
>to impossible to get a nice ripe one here, or even to get one to ripen
>evenly. I have pretty well given up and now buy them frozen. The frozen
>mangoes may not compare well to the fresh locally grown that you can
>get, but they are better than the mangoes I can buy, and not waste.

We have farmers' markets, but they're quite a drive away. Mangoes are
everywhere in the season. We even had the first ones from our own 2
trees just a few weeks ago. Passion fruit, citrus, banana, pineapple,
blueberries also do well here. It's too warm for cherries and the more
common types of apple.