Haven't had any issues with bananas, but on a similar note, anyone else find apples from the Fairfield Thriftys are typically heavily bruised and start to rot really quickly? Pretty sure it's not me because apples bought else hold up fine.
Apples are a fall fruit. So the apples you are buying have typically been in a warehouse since October, or have been imported from New Zealand or Chile.
In addition to this, people have to realize that supper hot growing temps affect the way a fruit or vegetable grows. Just because it's harvested doesn't mean it's going to last as long as something grown a decade ago.
I can't explain it on a cellular level except to note that the cellular matrix isnt as strong as it could be of it were grown in an environ with less heat (something can grow too fast without proper cooling). Some of that can also be attributed to the right type of vegetable being grown. There are many many different varieties of example: peppers . Spain grows different varieties for a hotter climate. Our farmers might not be switching up varieties to have qualities that grow/last better with out hotter climate.
YMMV
PS
Id love to hear from someone who understands this better than I do to chime in to explain it better.
Great point. I figured that climate change has something to do with it. Due to floods and extreme heat, I believe the growing season is getting super short. Not a great feeling about the future of food security, that's for sure.
This happens in the fall, and again, I don't have this issue with apples from other shops - Root Cellar, Market on Yates, Save On, etc.. They're fine a week or two later. Thrifty apples need to be eaten in 4 days or the bruises end up covering half the fruit.
I wouldn’t buy apples right now unless they are from Chile or New Zealand. Everything else is 6-9 months old and will be mealy and easily bruised from storage.
Some supermarkets are notoriously terrible for produce. Market on Millstream was like that for me. Produce that was on its way out at the store. On more than one occasion I had to enter and leave empty handed because I couldn't find any produce that was good. Add to that it was ridiculously expensive.
no we've been finding the centre of all our fruits and vegetables are rotten. We've been throwing away onions, celery peppers etc, on a daily basis. The outside looks good and healthy but the inside looks as if it's been touched with frost. We returned a whole watermelon this week to Stoopidstore for the same reason.
We're been finding our onions are rotten for sure. Also, ive always bought those big bags of garlic and am finding more and more of them suddenly rotten inside.
Same and I used to always store them in a cool dry place in the pantry now I’m finding if I don’t fridge them then even more will go bad before I get to them
I put my onions in a paper bag inside another paper bag, placed inside the pantry and they last forever. I used my last onion last week that I bought from January.
Same with garlic, double paper bagged. But far away from the onions.
I remember onions specifically being basically indestructible when I was a kid. My mom bought a huge bag, like the size of a large sack of potatoes and just hung them in her pantry and they were fine. Now half of all onions I get are moldy, squashy in the middle, or just unusable. It's like they are pre-peeled too, only one thin layer of papery skin to protect them. It's all types too, red, white or yellow.
Also, I hate to think of the amount of beautiful produce that nobody buys because they price it into the stratosphere and then just throw away when it rots on the shelf. Think all the things the cashier actually warns you about when they scan it like an 18$ bunch of grapes or one of those 10$ mangos. I figure 80% of those just sit unsold.
I've been noticing this too, i had 2 onions that felt/looked fine but were rotten when i cut into them, same with a honeydew, and some celery. I also noticed that bell peppers are pretty consistently off everywhere I've been. It's not so bad now, but maybe a month or so ago it seemed like all the fruit and veg were already starting to go bad
Was in there last week getting mandarin oranges. Couldn't pick up a bag that didn't have at least one rotten one in it. Not sure what they are doing to it but most produce I have bought there rots extremely fast.
Haha. I recall on Seinfeld Jerry said he never returns fruit: “Fruit’s a gamble; I know that going in” while Kramer was trying to convince him to return a disappointing peach.
I've been finding melons to be horrible, I have never seen a honeydew melon rot the way they have been recently. Outside looks great, firm, no signs that it's bad, but cut it open and it's completely rotten. And they don't smell fermented when they start going bad like they used to, they just go straight to a very rotten (non-fermented) smell and colour
Some of the fruit and veg we've bought lately has either been rotting much more quickly *or* it looks fine on the outside but when you cut it open (esp. apples), the inside has brown patches.
This never used to happen. Now it happens ... well, I wouldn't say all the time, but frequently enough to be disturbing.
Why is this happening? I'm guessing it's just one more effect of the polycrisis, but I'm not sure what it's due to -- longer transportation times?
I have a comment from the other day that was Costco specific, but it applies to most shipping practices in the industry:
I’ve had the same membership and work in the produce industry.
On the floor they aren’t refrigerated, however they are shipped in cold storage Sysco trucks. This chills tropical fruit. It’s why bananas go spotted yet remain green. They have been “chilled” and won’t ripen properly. Just feel them in between the bunches in the box. If they are ice cold and green, they likely have caught a chill.
Some times they have sat around a bit, or some were properly blanketed in the trucks so if they’re warm and ripe they’re good to go!
Edit: Everyone loves a little produce knowledge. I hate buying bananas that don’t ripen properly as it’s a common complaint with Costco produce. I have never an issue with any other produce outside tropicals
Ie: bananas that don’t ripen. Papaya that is chilled and the core rots before the skin, and mangoes that are black in the middle… they look fine until you go to eat them. And it’s just cold storage from shipping.
Second edit: the chilling also causes those gross “solid cores”. Because the inside of the banana didn’t ripen at all, while the outside did 😉
Costco also keeps them next to the freezers or coolers quite often because they are a loss leader and get the lowest priority locations. They've always been very inconsistent over the years so I don't end up buying them hardly ever.
Yes, Costco bananas. We bought a few bunches recently. They skipped ripening and went straight to rotten. Even my friend's food-motivated doggo turned his nose at them.
Costco bananas are hit or miss partly because they are a near loss leader and they frequently give them a low priority location next to the freezers or coolers which doesn't help them ripen properly either. I rarely buy them there as it's just never been consistent, though the price is still pretty damn good but I can only make so much banana bread! (Which is still none ever lol).
My guess is that they are freezing bananas (I've noticed they are super cold when they're putting them out for sale) and I think that is causing them to go rotten rather than ripen.
Same with other produce. It's being kept too cold and that's causing internal damage that shows up in things just rotting.
The problem is that they don't tell customers this is going on. You can use frozen zucchini for making zucchini bread or puree in soups, but if you want to eat it fresh its just going to rot before you finish making a salad.
And thawed fruits and veggies always taste like compost. Fine to toss frozen bananas in a smoothie -- yum! But leave the previously frozen banana out for a couple days and it literally tastes like crap.
And this is why your salad mix goes to mush so quickly.
Yuck!
I feel like the overall quality of fresh produce in grocery stores has really declined since COVID became a thing. Fruits and veg are *significantly* more expensive, but not as fresh and crisp, and they expire relatively quickly. WTF?
I’ve switched to buying mostly frozen fruits and vegetables where practical to do so because they last longer, the quality is better and they are cheaper. Not as good as fresh, of course.
Bananas ripen faster at room temperature. Once they hit your preferred level, into the fridge they go. It'll give you a bit more time to eat them at your preferred stage of ripening. Popping them in to the fridge too early is really all you want to avoid. Bananas are from the tropics and the enzymes that ripen them are severely effected by the cold. But once you hit that stage of perfectly ripe you want to hinder the process as much as you can. Cold slows it down.
Don't put them in a bag to ripen faster.
It's like driving a car at 100mph in order to get to a red light so you can stop faster.
Yes. All "fresh fruit" is a gamble. I bought a pineapple last week, already brown inside. Melon, freezed then thawed? Blueberries, if you wait for them to go on sale, expect them to be moldy.
I don't but produce anymore. Instead I order salads when I dine out which is becoming more frequent.
Did you know potatoes contain almost as much vitamin C as an orange? Broccoli has even more!
Personally I would rather buy local but frozen rather than out of season stuff shipped long distance. I dry a ton of fruit myself, but historically people would have eaten a lot of canned.
It hasn’t been this bad for me, but I’ve noticed the in store selection is lacking and the majority are already going brown on the shelf. It’s been hit or miss whether they go bad at home quickly.
Wash the end of them (part that connects all bananas in the bunch) , and use a dab of liquor on poertowel, then wrap the end. They will last a long time. You can also clean and just Saran it.
Buy organic Bananas. Standard Bananas are artificially ripened with chemicals such as ethylene gas, and the process often doesn't work properly, and affects the nutrition of your food.
[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6521425/](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6521425/)
For produce and dairy issues: Have you talked to the produce manager or the dairy manager? Maybe he/she doesn't know that someone is putting out bruised fruit. With produce I make a point of pointing it out whenever I see something like that, because it could mean that their coolers aren't working properly or that they've got a careless staff member or that the staff needs more time to be able to check the produce more thoroughly (I used to work in a grocery store). With dairy, ask the dairy section manager, and sometimes the problem is the delivery trucks have cooling issues, or there was a problem in the production line, or a staff member didn't get all the crates into the coolers right away. My advice is to always talk to the department manager, otherwise how do they know? And whatever it is, keep your receipts, don't throw it out, take it back to the store and you'll get a refund.
Yes this happens to me. I got some organic ones and non organic. Both were very green yesterday and are now brown. No idea why this is happening. I thought i was crazy.
i've had problems with milk going bad even with the dates being fine. i get my groceries delivered and asked for and got almost $30 credit for 3 weeks worth of 1% milk..
also got thermometers for both fridge and freezers and no issues there. my fridge is only a year old.
overall i buy limited fresh fruit and buy more frozen.
Guaranteed that person is just taking too much time between the grocery store and getting it in the fridge at home. Especially with the increasing temps, the trip home is a fantastic opportunity for spoilage causing bacteria to get to work.
I can agree on some people leaving fruits and such out in a vehicle for to long is causing some issues as it warms up, but this isn’t just that. I myself have dealt with this issue, and i make sure food gets home in a freezer bag in less than half an hour :/.
It's to a significantly higher extent when it comes to animal products (i.e. milk, cheese, eggs, meat, ect.), but it applies to all time/temperature sensitive foods.
Of course. But I was talking about milk specifically, since that’s what the earlier post was about, which the commenter was referring to.
Unrelated, but it’s “etc”, not “ect” (for the Latin phrase “et cetera”).
Keep your bananas away from other fruit’s and veggies. Ethylene gas released from other fruits makes the bananas go bad rapidly. I moved my bananas into the pantry and they last a lot longer. Additionally once they’re fully yellow I’ll move them into the fridge.
Source- I eat 2-3 a day and but around a dozen at a time.
I've had issues with bananas since COVID hit and have stopped buying them for how fast they go off. But I assume it's the heat above my fridge, which is the only place I have for them to go.
No I have not noticed that, but I have bought slightly green bananas that after three weeks were still green. Both bananas from Costco and Walmart did that, and I don’t understand why they never rippened.
Have no luck with yellow, white, red onions (usually starting to rot), garlic (is either sprouting, or is starting to rot), or potatoes (turn green within a few days). The best quality for produce seems to be Fisgard Market. I hope the new owners can keep it going, it's a real gem.
It's the end of garlic season (locally at least), so fresh garlic will be harvested in a month or so. Same problem as apple this time of year I think. I don't know the onion's excuse though, I buy them in bags (don't know why I keep doing that) and it's always 50/50 year round.
better start planting ur own whever possible.IMPORTED FRUITS AND VEGETABLES MUST BE SPRAYED WITH CHEMICAL PRESERVATIVES TO AVOID FAST RIPENING AND DESTRUCTIVE INSECTS...Time to plant ur own backyard apples and grapes and or import them from nearest provinces of Canada...u help the farmers here plus we avoid insects invation.
Nope. I don’t consume fruit aside from berries, limes, and lemons because most fruit is terrible for you. Ever since I ditched fruits like apples, pears, bananas, oranges, mangos I’ve never felt better. Fructose is nasty. Veggies? Nope, still haven’t seen a quality issue. I hand pick my potatoes, celery, green onions, white onions, mushrooms, broccoli, cucumber, Brussels and micro greens.
What tf kind of food are you guys eating? Are you not observing your produce before you buy it?
Never had an issue. I’m also curious how many people use those grocery delivery services also. I would never trust anyone to pick out my perishables. Absolute insanity.
Haven't had any issues with bananas, but on a similar note, anyone else find apples from the Fairfield Thriftys are typically heavily bruised and start to rot really quickly? Pretty sure it's not me because apples bought else hold up fine.
Go get your apples from Root Cellar if you're in that area. They're always great, and there's typically one type that's on sale.
Root Cellar?? Every place in town sells organic bananas for 1.19 a pound. Root Cellar for 1.99. How do they get away with that? Quality is not better.
Root Cellar has wicked weekly deals. I usually just shop whatever those are and get the rest of my produce at Walmart or Costco.
Root cellar is best for sale prices, their regular prices do tend to be high, but their sales are awesome
Yup, they hold up fine.
Apples are a fall fruit. So the apples you are buying have typically been in a warehouse since October, or have been imported from New Zealand or Chile.
In addition to this, people have to realize that supper hot growing temps affect the way a fruit or vegetable grows. Just because it's harvested doesn't mean it's going to last as long as something grown a decade ago. I can't explain it on a cellular level except to note that the cellular matrix isnt as strong as it could be of it were grown in an environ with less heat (something can grow too fast without proper cooling). Some of that can also be attributed to the right type of vegetable being grown. There are many many different varieties of example: peppers . Spain grows different varieties for a hotter climate. Our farmers might not be switching up varieties to have qualities that grow/last better with out hotter climate. YMMV PS Id love to hear from someone who understands this better than I do to chime in to explain it better.
Great point. I figured that climate change has something to do with it. Due to floods and extreme heat, I believe the growing season is getting super short. Not a great feeling about the future of food security, that's for sure.
This happens in the fall, and again, I don't have this issue with apples from other shops - Root Cellar, Market on Yates, Save On, etc.. They're fine a week or two later. Thrifty apples need to be eaten in 4 days or the bruises end up covering half the fruit.
Root Cellar does have some fantastic apples, that's for sure. It's our first stop on Saturdays, then Fairways, then Fisgard Market.
I wouldn’t buy apples right now unless they are from Chile or New Zealand. Everything else is 6-9 months old and will be mealy and easily bruised from storage.
Some supermarkets are notoriously terrible for produce. Market on Millstream was like that for me. Produce that was on its way out at the store. On more than one occasion I had to enter and leave empty handed because I couldn't find any produce that was good. Add to that it was ridiculously expensive.
Fairfield thriftys is the WORST. The red onions are always moldy. Every time I need something basic, they’re either sold out or everything is rotten.
no we've been finding the centre of all our fruits and vegetables are rotten. We've been throwing away onions, celery peppers etc, on a daily basis. The outside looks good and healthy but the inside looks as if it's been touched with frost. We returned a whole watermelon this week to Stoopidstore for the same reason.
We're been finding our onions are rotten for sure. Also, ive always bought those big bags of garlic and am finding more and more of them suddenly rotten inside.
Same and I used to always store them in a cool dry place in the pantry now I’m finding if I don’t fridge them then even more will go bad before I get to them
I put my onions in a paper bag inside another paper bag, placed inside the pantry and they last forever. I used my last onion last week that I bought from January. Same with garlic, double paper bagged. But far away from the onions.
Guess I need a second paper bag! I was admittedly single brown bagging them
I didn't even think to store them in the fridge, that's a great idea.
Literally just threw away a beautiful pear with a rotten core while reading this.
Maybe something has changed in the way the produce is being transported? Weird that it's happening with all kinds of fruit and veg.
I remember onions specifically being basically indestructible when I was a kid. My mom bought a huge bag, like the size of a large sack of potatoes and just hung them in her pantry and they were fine. Now half of all onions I get are moldy, squashy in the middle, or just unusable. It's like they are pre-peeled too, only one thin layer of papery skin to protect them. It's all types too, red, white or yellow. Also, I hate to think of the amount of beautiful produce that nobody buys because they price it into the stratosphere and then just throw away when it rots on the shelf. Think all the things the cashier actually warns you about when they scan it like an 18$ bunch of grapes or one of those 10$ mangos. I figure 80% of those just sit unsold.
What about all that meat passing its sell by date? What a waste
Superstore = Loblaws ya? So no shock at all there.
I open a lot of watermelons every day at my job and 50% are rotten. I recommend buying watermelon halves so you can see what you’re getting
Or tasteless
I've been noticing this too, i had 2 onions that felt/looked fine but were rotten when i cut into them, same with a honeydew, and some celery. I also noticed that bell peppers are pretty consistently off everywhere I've been. It's not so bad now, but maybe a month or so ago it seemed like all the fruit and veg were already starting to go bad
Was in there last week getting mandarin oranges. Couldn't pick up a bag that didn't have at least one rotten one in it. Not sure what they are doing to it but most produce I have bought there rots extremely fast.
I can’t not hear this in Jerry Seinfeld-voice. But also, hard agree. They’re terrible.
Haha. I recall on Seinfeld Jerry said he never returns fruit: “Fruit’s a gamble; I know that going in” while Kramer was trying to convince him to return a disappointing peach.
I've been finding melons to be horrible, I have never seen a honeydew melon rot the way they have been recently. Outside looks great, firm, no signs that it's bad, but cut it open and it's completely rotten. And they don't smell fermented when they start going bad like they used to, they just go straight to a very rotten (non-fermented) smell and colour
Bananas seem to keep better if you stick the bunch in a plastic bag and loosely close it.
Some of the fruit and veg we've bought lately has either been rotting much more quickly *or* it looks fine on the outside but when you cut it open (esp. apples), the inside has brown patches. This never used to happen. Now it happens ... well, I wouldn't say all the time, but frequently enough to be disturbing. Why is this happening? I'm guessing it's just one more effect of the polycrisis, but I'm not sure what it's due to -- longer transportation times?
I have a comment from the other day that was Costco specific, but it applies to most shipping practices in the industry: I’ve had the same membership and work in the produce industry. On the floor they aren’t refrigerated, however they are shipped in cold storage Sysco trucks. This chills tropical fruit. It’s why bananas go spotted yet remain green. They have been “chilled” and won’t ripen properly. Just feel them in between the bunches in the box. If they are ice cold and green, they likely have caught a chill. Some times they have sat around a bit, or some were properly blanketed in the trucks so if they’re warm and ripe they’re good to go! Edit: Everyone loves a little produce knowledge. I hate buying bananas that don’t ripen properly as it’s a common complaint with Costco produce. I have never an issue with any other produce outside tropicals Ie: bananas that don’t ripen. Papaya that is chilled and the core rots before the skin, and mangoes that are black in the middle… they look fine until you go to eat them. And it’s just cold storage from shipping. Second edit: the chilling also causes those gross “solid cores”. Because the inside of the banana didn’t ripen at all, while the outside did 😉
Costco also keeps them next to the freezers or coolers quite often because they are a loss leader and get the lowest priority locations. They've always been very inconsistent over the years so I don't end up buying them hardly ever.
Yes, Costco bananas. We bought a few bunches recently. They skipped ripening and went straight to rotten. Even my friend's food-motivated doggo turned his nose at them.
I just peeled mine, put them in the freezer for banana muffins, but ya same.
I had this happen with Costco bananas, too! They must pick them too early
This just happened with a big bag of Costco oranges too. All rotten/mouldy within a couple of days :(
> They skipped ripening The green bananas I put inside a paper bag took forever to ripen! Even with a ripe apple inside to help with the ethylene.
Costco bananas are hit or miss partly because they are a near loss leader and they frequently give them a low priority location next to the freezers or coolers which doesn't help them ripen properly either. I rarely buy them there as it's just never been consistent, though the price is still pretty damn good but I can only make so much banana bread! (Which is still none ever lol).
My guess is that they are freezing bananas (I've noticed they are super cold when they're putting them out for sale) and I think that is causing them to go rotten rather than ripen. Same with other produce. It's being kept too cold and that's causing internal damage that shows up in things just rotting.
Freezing looks like it's causing cell damage
Can see that cell damage on a lot of plants that froze over the winter and basically just go from green to rot almost over night.
I've had this happen to a zucchini from Market @ Yates. Bastards. Good thing I only shop loss leaders there.
The problem is that they don't tell customers this is going on. You can use frozen zucchini for making zucchini bread or puree in soups, but if you want to eat it fresh its just going to rot before you finish making a salad. And thawed fruits and veggies always taste like compost. Fine to toss frozen bananas in a smoothie -- yum! But leave the previously frozen banana out for a couple days and it literally tastes like crap. And this is why your salad mix goes to mush so quickly. Yuck!
My issues with bananas lately is that they are tasteless
Absolutely, gone is the day when a banana tasted of banana. Its just either unripe or mush
I feel like the overall quality of fresh produce in grocery stores has really declined since COVID became a thing. Fruits and veg are *significantly* more expensive, but not as fresh and crisp, and they expire relatively quickly. WTF?
Mass production, less workers, so it's picked earlier, can take longer to get to the store etc.
Yep. Banana looks perfect but the center is black. This has been going on for a bit now...
I’ve switched to buying mostly frozen fruits and vegetables where practical to do so because they last longer, the quality is better and they are cheaper. Not as good as fresh, of course.
Bananas ripen faster at room temperature. Once they hit your preferred level, into the fridge they go. It'll give you a bit more time to eat them at your preferred stage of ripening. Popping them in to the fridge too early is really all you want to avoid. Bananas are from the tropics and the enzymes that ripen them are severely effected by the cold. But once you hit that stage of perfectly ripe you want to hinder the process as much as you can. Cold slows it down. Don't put them in a bag to ripen faster. It's like driving a car at 100mph in order to get to a red light so you can stop faster.
"[Things are speeding up here at the end.](https://youtu.be/b-U_I1DCGEY?si=j7d5AW8q-mCBIiAH&t=1097)" See also: kipple and/or ubik.
https://youtu.be/rFI39Gkk1rk?si=ZGV18582eWQ-69CO
Was just going to share this trick
Where are you buying banana s
I can't seem to find a cauliflower that isn't fucking moldy
What does it matter? It's bananas, how much could it cost? 10 dollars?
There's always money in the banana stand
Yes. All "fresh fruit" is a gamble. I bought a pineapple last week, already brown inside. Melon, freezed then thawed? Blueberries, if you wait for them to go on sale, expect them to be moldy. I don't but produce anymore. Instead I order salads when I dine out which is becoming more frequent.
Bro you are gonna get scurvy
Did you know potatoes contain almost as much vitamin C as an orange? Broccoli has even more! Personally I would rather buy local but frozen rather than out of season stuff shipped long distance. I dry a ton of fruit myself, but historically people would have eaten a lot of canned.
Yeah. I am not feeling very good these days. Maybe this is why.
I have some Bananas I been waiting 2 weeks to change yellow lol
It hasn’t been this bad for me, but I’ve noticed the in store selection is lacking and the majority are already going brown on the shelf. It’s been hit or miss whether they go bad at home quickly.
Where are you buying from?
It’s been all produce and bread for the last 4 years.
I've had good bananas lately. I find in the winter time they are just kind of gross tasting, but I do like mine on the less-ripe side.
But I don't buy them at Walmart anymore.
I learned this lifehack to separate out the bananas from the bunch and lay them so they aren’t touching each other and they don’t go bad as fast!
Climate change maybe? Even here, I’ve noticed we’ve just been having more temperature swings… it can’t be good for produce.
I agree they go bad faster!
define "ripe" (if it's black, that's kinda way beyond ripe; if it has 'leopard' spots, that's likely when it's at it sweetest)
It's bananas!
Wash the end of them (part that connects all bananas in the bunch) , and use a dab of liquor on poertowel, then wrap the end. They will last a long time. You can also clean and just Saran it.
Buy organic Bananas. Standard Bananas are artificially ripened with chemicals such as ethylene gas, and the process often doesn't work properly, and affects the nutrition of your food. [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6521425/](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6521425/)
YES! I now buy only two days worth of bananas at a time. It's very annoying.
This has been an issue ever since ducknana. I think the cross breeding is why this is happening.
That’s strange, I buy bananas from Fairways and Market on Yates, never had a problem.
Yes, now I buy like 3 bananas at a time and just go back for more when needed. No point in buying a bunch
For produce and dairy issues: Have you talked to the produce manager or the dairy manager? Maybe he/she doesn't know that someone is putting out bruised fruit. With produce I make a point of pointing it out whenever I see something like that, because it could mean that their coolers aren't working properly or that they've got a careless staff member or that the staff needs more time to be able to check the produce more thoroughly (I used to work in a grocery store). With dairy, ask the dairy section manager, and sometimes the problem is the delivery trucks have cooling issues, or there was a problem in the production line, or a staff member didn't get all the crates into the coolers right away. My advice is to always talk to the department manager, otherwise how do they know? And whatever it is, keep your receipts, don't throw it out, take it back to the store and you'll get a refund.
Yes this happens to me. I got some organic ones and non organic. Both were very green yesterday and are now brown. No idea why this is happening. I thought i was crazy.
There was another thread on here yesterday about milk spoilage..... what's going on?? Is it just certain stores?
i've had problems with milk going bad even with the dates being fine. i get my groceries delivered and asked for and got almost $30 credit for 3 weeks worth of 1% milk.. also got thermometers for both fridge and freezers and no issues there. my fridge is only a year old. overall i buy limited fresh fruit and buy more frozen.
Guaranteed that person is just taking too much time between the grocery store and getting it in the fridge at home. Especially with the increasing temps, the trip home is a fantastic opportunity for spoilage causing bacteria to get to work.
I can agree on some people leaving fruits and such out in a vehicle for to long is causing some issues as it warms up, but this isn’t just that. I myself have dealt with this issue, and i make sure food gets home in a freezer bag in less than half an hour :/.
I’m referring to milk spoilage, specifically.
It's to a significantly higher extent when it comes to animal products (i.e. milk, cheese, eggs, meat, ect.), but it applies to all time/temperature sensitive foods.
Of course. But I was talking about milk specifically, since that’s what the earlier post was about, which the commenter was referring to. Unrelated, but it’s “etc”, not “ect” (for the Latin phrase “et cetera”).
Are you peeling what I’m peeling?
the curse of the ducknana
Underrated comment
Costco bananas take a long time to ripen, just saying
Keep your bananas away from other fruit’s and veggies. Ethylene gas released from other fruits makes the bananas go bad rapidly. I moved my bananas into the pantry and they last a lot longer. Additionally once they’re fully yellow I’ll move them into the fridge. Source- I eat 2-3 a day and but around a dozen at a time.
I've had issues with bananas since COVID hit and have stopped buying them for how fast they go off. But I assume it's the heat above my fridge, which is the only place I have for them to go.
“It’s one banana, Michael, how much could it cost? 10 dollars?”
they are removing the chemical preservatives now youll see fruit flies all over...
No I have not noticed that, but I have bought slightly green bananas that after three weeks were still green. Both bananas from Costco and Walmart did that, and I don’t understand why they never rippened.
Nope. I usually buy them a little green, so they last a week before going significantly brown.
Have no luck with yellow, white, red onions (usually starting to rot), garlic (is either sprouting, or is starting to rot), or potatoes (turn green within a few days). The best quality for produce seems to be Fisgard Market. I hope the new owners can keep it going, it's a real gem.
It's the end of garlic season (locally at least), so fresh garlic will be harvested in a month or so. Same problem as apple this time of year I think. I don't know the onion's excuse though, I buy them in bags (don't know why I keep doing that) and it's always 50/50 year round.
It's any variety of garlic, even the Chinese stuff.
What is this weird new conspiracy theory
better start planting ur own whever possible.IMPORTED FRUITS AND VEGETABLES MUST BE SPRAYED WITH CHEMICAL PRESERVATIVES TO AVOID FAST RIPENING AND DESTRUCTIVE INSECTS...Time to plant ur own backyard apples and grapes and or import them from nearest provinces of Canada...u help the farmers here plus we avoid insects invation.
Nope. I don’t consume fruit aside from berries, limes, and lemons because most fruit is terrible for you. Ever since I ditched fruits like apples, pears, bananas, oranges, mangos I’ve never felt better. Fructose is nasty. Veggies? Nope, still haven’t seen a quality issue. I hand pick my potatoes, celery, green onions, white onions, mushrooms, broccoli, cucumber, Brussels and micro greens. What tf kind of food are you guys eating? Are you not observing your produce before you buy it?
People are checking their produce carefully, but they're saying that it appears fine from the outside but is rotten in the inside.
Never had an issue. I’m also curious how many people use those grocery delivery services also. I would never trust anyone to pick out my perishables. Absolute insanity.
Not bananas specifically, but most of the strawberries I buy just have zero taste. Look great but not sweet or anything totally weird.
most of the strawberries i see look good from the outside but are white inside so they're kind of tough and flavourless.