Keep Your Strawberries Fresh

The best time to consume strawberries as soon as you harvest or purchase them. But if you want to store your strawberries, I have a good tips and tricks to save your strawberries. Let’s start!

-         Strawberries should kept in a room temperature for a few hours. Anthocyanin, which is responsible for the red color of Strawberries, is heat sensitive. This is the reason strawberries brown in warm temperature.

-         If you want to store your strawberries, don’t wash your strawberries before you save them. Only cover the strawberries with the plastic wrap and should be placed on the coldest part of your refrigerator (not freezer) for about two days maximum as they lose nutrients quickly.

-         Only wash strawberries when you ready to consume them. After you wash the strawberries, place them in a colander and rinse them under running cold water. Don’t soak them because it can lose their color and flavor.

-         If you want to frozen strawberries, you should to wash them gently, let them dry and remove the caps. After that, placed them on a cookie sheet and freeze. You may keep them in your freezer about six months.