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You're telling me that produce grown in its optimal environmental conditions and flash-frozen at harvest is going to taste worse than something grown in a truck
by busterarm 6y ago
You're telling me that produce grown in its optimal environmental conditions and flash-frozen at harvest is going to taste worse than something grown in a truck in a parkinglot in Brooklyn?
I call bullshit. It's pretty much universally agreed that frozen fruit is fresher and often tastes better, for example.
Flavor is more about varieties being selected for mass production rather than their growing method and transportation. You can transport heirloom tomatoes. Nothing stopping you.
- 1helloworld1 6y agoI don't think you can flash freeze leafy greens and still maintain the texture. Have you eaten flash frozen lettuce for salad?
- Scoundreller 6y agoI mean like, why not? I think the issue with leafy greens is that they're fairly stable, travel well and grow well/quickly in greenhouses, so it's not worth flash freezing them.
- nicoburns 6y agoBecause they're mostly water, and water expands when frozen, destroying the structure of the plant.
- busterarm 6y agoYou know what else destroys the structure of the plant? Chewing.
- Scoundreller 6y agoThat’s a part of the experience though. Freezing will preserve the nutrients, but risks the “mouthfeel”. But if you’re going to blend it, who cares.
- AndrewKemendo 6y agoUnquestionably worse. Recognize that "taste" is some mixture of flavor and texture. I challenge you to slice a thawed tomato the way you would a vine fresh one and tell me there isn't a difference. Same goes for most leafy greens and fruits. Delicate cellular structures of high water content vegetables are completely obliterated when frozen and then thawed or otherwise processed.
- busterarm 6y agoHydroponically grown vegetables don't typically taste good either. (Common complaints being: bland, weak, "oily", boring). That's the reason why this operation in the article is using soil in their growbeds. It's the only way to get plants that are worth selling.
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