Fruit.....Are they actually worth eating

[hollydolly]

I know we all need to eat fruit for good health, but it's often said that to get the best vitamins the fruit has to be as fresh as possible. The longer it takes to reach store or lies unsold on market shelves the more vitamin loss there is...and often in preference to older fruits if you can't get fresh then it's more nutritious to eat frozen or even canned which are frozen within hours of being picked therefore keeping all the goodness locked in.

I buy almost ripe fruit whenever I can so it's ready to eat immediately, however I have a dilemma.

There is a large market near where I work and one of my customers is a lady who owns the fruit and veg stall, and every month she is so sweet and kindly brings me a big bag of mixed fresh fruit. Pears, peaches, plums, apples, oranges and bananas

The bananas are always green, and the plums, apples, pears and peaches are rock hard, and honestly not ready to eat for up to 2 weeks. Goodness knows what they might be sprayed with to keep them going off for so long. lol.......but in all seriousness, if they take so long to ripen surely there can be hardly any vitamin content in them...so really are they worth eating, and would I be better just feeding them to the horses ?

 

[Falcon]

We all eat fruits in this household. We buy them at our regular supermarket and never worry about
it. Can't get too many hang-ups to spoil my life.

 

[Warrigal]

Vitamin C survives in an acid medium as in unripe fruit.
It will still be there when the sugar level rises as the fruit ripens.
It is quickly destroyed by heat, as in boiling so the canning process could diminish its presence in preserved fruit and veg.
Any minerals in fruit are practically indestructible and I think vitamin A is also robust.

Eat the fruit. It's good for you for all sorts of reasons.

 

[hollydolly]

Thanks warrigal and falcon, I will eat it then.

As I said I usually buy fresh fruit that's ready to eat, but just wondered about this other fruit that takes so long to ripen...

 

[Honey]

I'm really not a fruit eater but I can manage the odd banana

 

[hollydolly]

I'm really not a fruit eater but I can manage the odd banana

I eat a banana and a couple of dried dates every morning before going to work.

The rest of the fresh fruit gets chopped up in salads throughout the week to accompany evening meals

 

[Davey Jones]

If the fruits are grown in the U.S.A. then Ill eat em,nothing like oranges from Florida,corn from Georgia,potatoes from Idaho.
I dont know why but I just cant eat a bananna from the Honduras or Costa Rica .

 

[Warrigal]

Thanks warrigal and falcon, I will eat it then.

As I said I usually buy fresh fruit that's ready to eat, but just wondered about this other fruit that takes so long to ripen...

As a hint, keep the unripe fruit in a bag with something already ripe. Gases from the ripe fruit will cause the rest to ripen. Don't refrigerate.

 

[hollydolly]

As a hint, keep the unripe fruit in a bag with something already ripe. Gases from the ripe fruit will cause the rest to ripen. Don't refrigerate.

I do tend to keep bananas and apples separate from every other fruit to prevent the over ripening warrigal, but I never thought to put them in a bag to encourage the ripening...thanks for that..

 

[Jackie22]

I keep a bowl of fruit most all the time, when the grandkids come over, they always wipe it out, but thats ok.....apples and bananas are my favorite.

 

[Meanderer]

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[grannyjo]

I buy mostly local fruit and vegies from a man who buys locally and sells the stuff from his garage. He'll quite often be out of tomatoes or avocados, so then I buy from the local farmers market which is held twice a week. Where I live it is very rare for there to be no bananas - I can see them growing from where I live.