Sometimes it happens that bought beautiful fruits and vegetables are tasteless. Or, after buying vegetables in a store, after a couple of days they lose their presentation - and this despite the observance of all conditions for optimal storage. However, you can learn to choose vegetables that will meet our expectations in all their characteristics.
It is necessary
Fruits, berries, vegetables, seller
Instructions
Step 1
Start by going through the entire fruit and vegetable row of the market or a section of the store. Do not get into the habit of taking the first product that comes across without first familiarizing yourself with the entire range of products. Unfortunately, in an age of eternal haste, we strive to minimize the time for buying food, but then we invariably reproach ourselves for it.
Step 2
Pay attention to the temperature regime for storing berries. If strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries are stored in refrigerated display cases, most likely ripeness has reached its climax. Having brought them home, you must immediately eat or not start processing. Such berries usually lose their consumer qualities the very next day. It doesn't matter that you keep them in the refrigerator. The time it takes to get from the store to your home will do the trick.
Step 3
Check out the price tags. If a good-looking product is suspiciously cheap, then most likely something is wrong with it. Remember that the store, by lowering prices, seeks to get rid of the accumulated inventory, and does not do it out of philanthropy. In the age of globalization, there is no room for sentiment. However, an overpriced price tag does not mean at all that you have fruits or berries of excellent consumer qualities. It may well be that this is just a payback for the mistake of a commodity specialist who ordered products at an overpriced price.
Step 4
Buy apples and pears with a matte finish. If the surface of the fruit is too glossy, it is most likely treated with a special wax, which increases the shelf life of fruit and vegetable products. Despite the unsightly appearance of small domestic apples, from the point of view of nutrients, it is better to buy them. Another important point. When choosing apples and pears, be sure to hold the fruit in your hand. Feels like it is easy to determine how much he sang or vice versa - has a "wooden" pulp. The same applies to peaches, nectarines, persimmons.
Step 5
Look for vegetables that have been cleaned of dirt, but avoid washed ones. Nutritionists do not have an unequivocal opinion on this, but nevertheless, most experts are inclined to believe that washed vegetables - potatoes, carrots, beets, losing moisture, also lose nutrients. Sometimes losses can reach 10-15 percent. Another tip: aim for medium sized even vegetables for the species and variety, avoiding too small and too large. As for the color - it should be characteristic of the given product.
Step 6
Choose melons for the characteristic sound that is formed when you knock on them. Also pay attention to the condition of the stalk. In ripe melons and watermelons, it is either absent or has a dried out appearance. When purchasing a pumpkin, do not try to buy large fruits. Pumpkin is a product that it is desirable to process the whole whole, not leaving pieces "for later."
