Is fresh fruit really fresh? 🍎

Is fresh food really fresh? 🍎 The average apple you buy at a grocery store is 14 months old 😱 Carrots can be in cold storage for 6-8 months before they get to you 🥕It’s the same with potatoes, which can take between 8-10 months before arriving at your store 🥔Once properly cured, onions can sit in cold storage for a year!! 🧅

On one hand really nice to have all our favorite foods available year-round. On the other hand it’s kind of a bummer we don’t get to experience the best flavors from food that sits in storage for so long. What do you think?

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[rachaeltumer]

The kid tripping on the banana peel in the back! 😂😂😂 so cute!

[Diseaseisreversible]

The people need to be fed. I’ll take a little lack of taste over not having food any day

[crankyfox]

But thats a good thing!
Frozen foods are actually better in many cases! Most vitamins are sensitive to light and temperature, and if processed(cut and washed) and frozen immediately after harvest, they'll retain their nutrition far better than just purely "fresh".
But in general; we need to preserve food as long as possible. If an apple can be kept a year or more fresh, that is a guarantee that if there is a bad year, or a disastrous event, we'll still be able to feed everyone like a king!

[mariamaria]

That slipping on the banana peel was executed perfectly perfectly. So cute

[MySuewho]

I have two thoughts.
First thought you are one of my favorite short YouTubers
Second thought people need to grow as much of their own food as they possibly can
Thanks for your videos

[Pandalf]

I love how you cut the videos and pack interesting facts into small reels. Entertaining and educational.

[allisonp]

I totally get this. I figured it out when I started a garden. That butternut squash you need a cleaver to cut. If you grow it at home, the knife just slides thru it easily and the moisture beads to the surface. Potatoes from the grocery store in Asian hot pot with soak up the broth (yummy). But a fresh potato cooks, but doesn't soak up the broth. That's because it still has it's moisture. Along with lost moisture, I believe is lost nutrition. However, if you're growing it yourself, hopefully you can store them in a root cellar. Which means you're eating some of it much layer. Hopefully you have enough to last to the next harvest. Always better fresh, but that's also why frost foods are good for you as well.

[rehamkcirtap]

I think when we have the option to eat seasonal produce we obviously do that. But being able to eat fruit in the winter is cool as heck

[KathySemrau]

I miss fresh apples. They taste great.

[jimdevilbiss]

That’s why during the picking season in the Catoctin mountains of Maryland we get as many apples as we can

[rawbarbie]

So this explains why it all goes bad in one week at my house ….

[DaveE]

We need tax incentives for buildings to be built with strong enough roofs for rooftop gardens and incentives to install them and enable groups to grow food on then

[sheepewe]

An apple picked right off the tree is something else, even freshly dug potatoes have an earthy depth of flavour that you will never get from plastic-wrapped, store-bought ones.

[cyndismith]

Not any different than how gardeners store their harvest. Carrots can actually be left in the ground for months before being harvesred and used.

[Kalaydascope]

A carrot fresh from the garden is infinitely better than a carrot from the grocery store. Same with raspberries fresh off the bush.

[amel]

I enjoy your shorts. They're entertaining and educational. 😎

[ericolens]

thats why i love local or seasonal foods.

now i can see why apples are year round and on demand whereas stone fruit are summer seasonals.

still curious why peaches cant be year round? plums? pluot, apricots, plumcots, cherry plums and all the other franken-fruits. they are good but limited season. kinda like the McRib.

[Serenity-vnon]

My grandpa used to dig out baby potatoes from the ground just minutes before they were cooked and eaten. No wonder they tasted so good 😂

[sarahortiz-fysb]

Then they go bad a few days after I buy them 😔

[creationsbyjessie]

That's also why tomatoes from the store don't taste ripe.