Strawberries
By savypat
@savypat (20216)
United States
March 30, 2010 10:54am CST
I brought my first strawberries of the year about a week ago, put them in the frig and forgot I had them. Pulled them out after 5 days when I rediscovered them. They were still in good shape. Now I don't know about you but I would love to know how they did that. If I go out in the garden and pick berries they will not last more than 3 days tops. I know that strawberries do not ripen after being picked, so have these been treated? Geneticly altered? Or what? Do you think they are safe to eat, is there any nutrition left in the poor things or are they just a perfect shell
of what these berries were intended to be when Mother Nature was in charge?
5 responses
@dragon54u (31634)
• United States
1 Apr 10
That's amazing! Maybe you just got lucky?
I make things last longer by taking them out of their package and putting them in one of the muslin vegetable bags I made. It double the time that they stay good. I don't know why, but it does. The material was cheap and took only a few minutes to make four bags.
@silvercoin (2101)
• Lithuania
30 Mar 10
I love strawberries, but I'm waiting for real ones.I don't know how good are those you've bought, but here they are spectacularly red,have perfect shape and they taste like wax.I can't smell strawberries in them.It's disappointing.My grandma had a nice garden and the berries there were small and big,sweet and sour, but they had real good taste.I'm still looking for that taste.
@GardenGerty (160491)
• United States
30 Mar 10
I sometimes find that, but not always. It is true, we can smell fruit that is genuinely good and tasty.
@Sir_bobby88 (8231)
• Singapore
30 Mar 10
firstly your strawberries is it expose to sunlight and is it store it a good air tight container ? Well i would still eat it if it is not rotten yea .
@GardenGerty (160491)
• United States
30 Mar 10
If you are like me you wash whatever you bring in from the garden. That is what starts it deteriorating. I bet you did not wash your strawberries before you put them in the fridge. I do not know if it is legal to do anything to them to preserve them, unless they post it. You may have put them in just the perfect place in your refrigerator, away from other ripening fruits like apples.
@3nTrOpY (25)
• India
30 Mar 10
if they are kept in cool place so that the enzymes in dem cant ferment...
den they stay fresh
