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In my experience smell is the best indicator. You want your fruit to smell like fruit. If it has no smell it doesn't have any flavor either.
by guelo 9y ago
In my experience smell is the best indicator. You want your fruit to smell like fruit. If it has no smell it doesn't have any flavor either.
- jacquesm 9y agoSmell and taste are so intricately related that loss of the sense of smell usually translates into a significant loss of the sense of taste so you are absolutely right. But smelling the produce before buying is considered pretty bad form where I live.
- holografix 9y agoI find this really interesting, where in the world would it be considered bad form to sniff a tomatoe before purchasing?
- jacquesm 9y agoWell, here in NL it certainly would if you went through a crate of tomatoes at the local supermarket and smelled all of them one-by-one.
- DonHopkins 9y agoYou've got two nostrils, so sniff them two at time and take half as long.
- jacquesm 9y agoThat got me laughing but being the serious kind I am now wondering if we're wired up in such a way that if one tomato is bland and the other is rich in smell that we can tell the two apart reliably enough to know which is which? I always think of us as having two eyes, two ears for stereo vision and sound but never think of us as having 'two noses' to determine the direction of a small or two different smells at the same time.
- raarts 9y agoI live in Amsterdam but I always try how strawberries smell before buying. And in my experience they smell the same if they come from true same batch so I only need to try once.
- danmaz74 9y ago> But smelling the produce before buying is considered pretty bad form where I live. Doing that in supermarkets here is also looked upon as a bit weird. But I don't care, I prefer to look weird and eat the best tomatoes ;)
- jules 9y agoThe tomatoes themselves don't have a strong smell, though the vines do.