Shelf life of fruit and vegetables

[jblaze5779]

Let us not forget the massive amount of wasted time spent waiting in line to use the scales to pre weigh your produce. That has a good chance of taking longer than the actual checkout.

 

[cbbsas]

If you are in CABA and close to Palermo, go to the Bonpland farmers' marketBonpland / Soler almacen or Mercado Punto Verde at Dorrego just off Cordoba, the produce sold there is ecologically grown, harvested the night before and brought in fresh by the growers themselves. Keeps wonderful for a week or two and you skip the middle man and don't consume pesticides poison and Monsanto garabge.

I actually do go here - very often i have to shift through the produce to avoid ones that are rotting, often leaving empty handed! Perhaps I’ve just been extremely unlucky?

 

[cbbsas]

Have to admit I'm not a great fruit and veg person but my wife is.

Been interesting hearing her view on the subject. During our time in Glasgow she was utterly amazed at the quality and variety of fruit and veg on offer at any well known large supermarket...she was in heaven. When we came here even I noticed the quality and variety was total crap in comparison...although I have to admit I thought the beef tomatoes here were a cut above.

13 years on and I've even noticed they've definitely upped their game at the local fruit and veg shop. The supermarkets however still mostly sell overpriced crap that belongs in the bin.

Same experience completely, down to the tomatoes!

 

[cbbsas]

Leafy greens have the highest nutrient content the day they're harvested, but you need your own garden to eat that way. That's the only way you know you are eating fresh greens, etc.

I buy agroecologico and organic products direct from a farm every Wednesday in my neighborhood at Que Comes Cuando Comes. A bunch of kale lasts a week for a salad every day.

It's sad to hear that 40% or more of what is produced in the USA ends up not being "perfect" enough for sale, and gets dumped in landfills rather than feeding the hungry.

I have bought from here with good success previously, thanks for reminding me about it. I guess I got too lazy with meal planning properly to continue buying in advance but I think I’m rediscovering that that’s the way it needs to be for me!

 

[cbbsas]

"Out of date" is a first-world concept. Most societies outside the US and UK have no problem consuming produce that doesn't look like its been photoshopped, so long as it's not outright spoiled.

Yeah, Im not strict about sell by dates myself and definitely tread riskier waters in that department compared most people I know. When I say out of date I mean downright rotting/mouldy

 

[Redpossum]

The chain of distribution in this country is severely ******-up.

Producers are paid jack-squat, while the consumer is price-gouged viciously, and the produce shows up at the verduleria looking old and tired and shabby. Note this is capital federal I'm talking about, YMMV.

 

[another]

I actually do go here - very often i have to shift through the produce to avoid ones that are rotting, often leaving empty handed! Perhaps I’ve just been extremely unlucky?

Saturday morning is the best time to go to Bonpland market. You can also take a whatsapp of the vendor on the left hand side past the first shop that sells variety of pantry products. His name is Enrique and you can message him Friday eve and ask to hold whatever it is you want for you, sometimes they ruin out of stuff fast if you are not there early. During the week they only bring stuff in once, and it stays there for the next day. Also fruit are sometimes not in a great shape, cause they are brought from Missiones / Salta, but veggies are usually fresh - tomatoes suffer some collateral damage. Mercado Punto Verde has very good quality and extremely fresh produce, but a bit pricier. A small natural almacen at the corner of Bonpland and Soler has produce brought in Wednesdays and Saturdays and usually has a huge variety of green leafy veggies, broccoli and some exotic stuff. It's a tiny place, but there are a couple of more stands inside - one sells dairy / meat products and the other grains and condiments and frozen empanadas etc. Those two are there any day.

 

[sts7049]

The chain of distribution in this country is severely ******-up.

Producers are paid jack-squat, while the consumer is price-gouged viciously, and the produce shows up at the verduleria looking old and tired and shabby. Note this is capital federal I'm talking about, YMMV.

which union is making all the money? truckers?

 

[cbbsas]

Saturday morning is the best time to go to Bonpland market. You can also take a whatsapp of the vendor on the left hand side past the first shop that sells variety of pantry products. His name is Enrique and you can message him Friday eve and ask to hold whatever it is you want for you, sometimes they ruin out of stuff fast if you are not there early. During the week they only bring stuff in once, and it stays there for the next day. Also fruit are sometimes not in a great shape, cause they are brought from Missiones / Salta, but veggies are usually fresh - tomatoes suffer some collateral damage. Mercado Punto Verde has very good quality and extremely fresh produce, but a bit pricier. A small natural almacen at the corner of Bonpland and Soler has produce brought in Wednesdays and Saturdays and usually has a huge variety of green leafy veggies, broccoli and some exotic stuff. It's a tiny place, but there are a couple of more stands inside - one sells dairy / meat products and the other grains and condiments and frozen empanadas etc. Those two are there any day.

Thank you so much for going to the trouble to list all that out! Very appreciated

 

[another]

Thank you so much for going to the trouble to list all that out! Very appreciated

You are very welcome. I am used to quarter of a century of best organic local and otherwise West Coast produce, and if not for these markets, I would have not survived in BsAs two thirds of a year. So I can appreciate the fellow sufferers predicament'. And I find this topic infinitely more important than endless discussions of who should clean one's loo or how much the ostensibly rich have to endure living in a luxury tower building and why they need a private mansion...