7 Tips To Keep Fruits Fresh, There Is Nothing Rotten
The fruit is a source of healthy food that should we consume every day. To avoid the hassle, we often fruit shopping to stock a few days ahead.
Unfortunately, there are still a lot of people wrong in storing fruit. So, the freshness was not awake. Well, so that your favorite fruit is no longer wasted, we'll give you a few tricks to save it.
1. Apples and pears
Actually, keep apples or pears is very easy, just inside the room temperature. However, to maintain freshness and taste, better save it in the refrigerator.
This fruit can produce ethylene gas more than others. Ethylene is a compound that can help a fruit or vegetable in the process of maturation.
Therefore, do not store the fruit to each other, because it could trigger other fruit to rot quickly. Better you use a separate container or wrap it first before being stored in the refrigerator.
2. Mango
Mango can also be cooked by itself. So many people love to sell it while it's still raw. For you who like to eat a mango, just save it in the refrigerator.
If you keep it at room temperature, the process of maturing can more quickly, roughly around 3 days. Ripe mango can last up to two weeks in the refrigerator. However, the mango, peeled or cut can only endure 2-3 yesterday in the fridge.
3. Banana
If you are still storing bananas in the refrigerator better stop that habit. Banana taste and quality would be better if kept at room temperature.
Unfortunately, the bananas are stored at room temperature can only endure 1-2 days only. So the banana can last a long time, you could try the trick in the video above.
4. Watermelon
The watermelon is very fitting to give freshness when the weather is hot and dehydrated. You better keep it in the fridge to keep it fresh and sweet taste.
Watermelon can survive intact for 10 days at room temperature, whereas in the fridge can be up to two weeks. Whereas, for the watermelon pieces, you have to wrap it like at the supermarket before entering the refrigerator.
Such action can make watermelon last up to three days and it was still awake.
5. Melon
Same thing with watermelon, melon also became a favorite fruit at a time when the weather is scorching hot. Keep cut melons in the refrigerator so that the fruit does not awake, their texture mushy and watery.
While fairly intact, melons stored at room temperature only. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), content of antioxidants in melon i.e. lycopene and beta caroten will be reduced when stored in the refrigerator.
6. Orange
Orange including most easily compared to other fruits. You only keep it in the refrigerator to keep the flavor and quality.
There is no other special terms and conditions, citrus fruit or vegetables do not cause nearby into fast stinking. Just try to save the Orange did not overlap. It could affect of defective fruit underneath.
In room temperature, oranges can last only one week. Whereas, in the refrigerator can last up to one month.
7. Grape
To keep the sweetness and freshness, better keep the Grape in the fridge. Before the Grape is stored, washed and dried.
Grape can last up to 10 days in the refrigerator and can last 3 months in the freezer. The Grapes are stored in the freezer, let stand used to be at room temperature before it is eaten.
Now that is a good way in the store and to keep it succulent and delicious.
