Ripe for the picking

"C W Browne" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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You can fool some of the people .

Quite true. In fact, this is the fundamental underpinning of
all of alternative medicine.

"C W Browne" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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You can fool some of the people .

Fruit offered for sale in vegetable shops and supermarkets
has often been put in cold storage, irradiated, waxed,
sprayed with chemicals or genetically modified, usually
without any labeling to warn the consumer. The latest
addition to this arsenal is that the fruits are becoming
increasingly greener. Unripe green pineapples, green
papaws, green mangos, green oranges, lemons and
grapefruits, green bananas and rock-hard avocados, peaches
and plums are the order of the day. The appetizing
colours, fragrances and flavours of fruits ripened on the
vine are fast disappearing, to be replaced by bland-
tasting hard, green products with a fraction of the
nutritional value they should have.

Farmers in their impatience and greed no longer wait for
crops to ripen properly, while storeowners think in terms
of long shelf life. Providing good value to customers in
the form of tasty, nutritious, health-promoting fruits is
low on the agenda. It was possible 30 years ago to supply
ripe, unadulterated fruits to the consumer, so why cannot
it still be done today, with modern transportation and
logistics?

Marketing moguls use catch lines like "one for today, one
for tomorrow". However fruit that is picked green does not
ripen, but simply shrivels and rots from the inside. Fruit
always has and always will ripen and come to maturity in
accordance with the immutable laws of nature, which do not
change to suit the latest marketing whims and fancies.

What can one do? The answer is, don't buy this. Support
the growing number of organic outlets that are filling the
void, and support your health at the same time.

You can't fool all of the people all of the time.

Christopher Browne.

Where I live the fruits and vegtables are quite fresh. Only
the apples out of season are heavily waxed. You could buy a
great looking apple that is rotted inside. But generally
things seem fresh, so much so that if you don't consume them
right away they won't last. I'm just lucky I guess.

We shop at Farmers Markets in the SF-Bay Area, particularly
for the Spring/Summer Fruits....berries, apricots, peaches,
nectarines, etc.

I do think their flavor ususally has it all over the
supermarkets (though I must say the two BEST peaches I've
ever had in my life came from a Safeway).

However, I have expected better taste from the "organic"
fruits (considering the extra price, not to mention all the
hype), but have not found that to be true. Most often, the
small, but non-organic, grower across te aisle at the FM has
the better tasting product. Can't tell you HOW many "free
samples" from the "organic" stands turned out to be rather
blah, taste-wise. I was rather surprised.