If
you buy fruit during your weekly grocery trip, like we do, you have a lot of
fruit around the house. Fruit is great for snacking
and to keep you healthy. It’s, also,
great for enhancing meals, like mango salsa with homemade tacos or a pear
chutney over a pork loin roast. Yum!
So, if you’re a fruit-eater, you know it’s sometimes difficult to eat your fruit before it spoils. Here’s a solution.
When we get home from the grocery store, we put all of our fruit in a freshly cleaned sink. Then we mix a combination of one part white vinegar and three parts water. We let the fruit soak for about ten minutes, drain the sink and let the fruit dry. Then, depending on the type of fruit, we store it in a fruit bowl on our counter or in our fridge.
The
water-vinegar mixture kills about 98% of the bacteria on fruit. This slows down the spoiling process and helps
fruit last up to a week or more after getting it home. Before it’s time to eat the fruit, we’ll rinse
it off again.
This
means we don’t waste our fruit, which saves us money or gets us a better return
on our fruit investment.
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