I mean, they’re shipping this stuff halfway around the world so that you can get a summer fruit in the dead of winter. Some produce is much easier to preserve than others; apples and oranges can have their ripening arrested using nitrogen and controlled atmosphere. Others can be picked green and ripen on the way (bananas). But with some fruits like raspberries, not a whole lot can be done besides refrigeration. Those berries have lots of nooks and crannies for bacteria and spores to nuzzle in and proliferate. If they could figure out a way to make those berries last longer, believe me they would. They end up throwing away a lot because they rot on the shelves, costing them a lot of money.
I mean, they’re shipping this stuff halfway around the world so that you can get a summer fruit in the dead of winter. Some produce is much easier to preserve than others; apples and oranges can have their ripening arrested using nitrogen and controlled atmosphere. Others can be picked green and ripen on the way (bananas). But with some fruits like raspberries, not a whole lot can be done besides refrigeration. Those berries have lots of nooks and crannies for bacteria and spores to nuzzle in and proliferate. If they could figure out a way to make those berries last longer, believe me they would. They end up throwing away a lot because they rot on the shelves, costing them a lot of money.
I think if we mash the berries down into a paste it would eliminate a lot of those nooks.
And Then!
And then we can heat up the paste to pasteurize it and seal it in a can or jar to keep it sterile. I bet it would be shelf stable too.
Then we can just eat the paste.
If only such a technology were within our grasp
Some things you should only eat when they’re in season near you…