what is the best fruit to leave in a fridge?

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• underreacting@literature.cafe ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you want a variety of fruits included fridge unfriendly ones:

  Could you keep a bunch of fruit at work instead of bringing one each day?

  Or keep a picture of fruit in the fridge with your lunch and trade it for the fruit when you pack your bag so you don’t forget it?

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• RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Apples stay nice in the refrigerator, figs do, berries, grapes, citrus.

  But I think what you need more is a checklist? So that it doesn’t matter if your fruit this week is in the fridge or on the counter.

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• volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Any particular reason it has to be in the fridge?

  The thing is, it is actually not recommended to store tropical fruit in the fridge. So mangos, bananas, kiwis… The other thing is that most fruit doesn’t need to be refrigerated and will still stay fresh at room temperature (assuming room temp is between 20-25°C).

  You can buy a bunch of green-yellow bananas and they will ripen throughout the week without going bad and leave them outside. Apples will last a long time outside of the fridge too - even in warmer/moister climates. So do citric fruit. Berries and grapes are probably the only thing I would refrigerate, as well as cut fruit. (Tbh I wouldn’t refrigerate berries either because that makes them lose their taste, so I’d just eat them right away. They are a fleeting breeze of summer that should be enjoyed within the blink of an eye.)

  Why do you need to limit yourself to one type of fruit? Idk your fruit portions, we eat so much fruit at home that I am shocked we haven’t died of fructose induced liver cirrhosis yet. So get some greener bananas (store outside) for Tuesday and Wednesday, grapes in the fridge for Thursday and Friday, and bring something fresh like a mango for Monday? And just have a sack of apples as an emergency. They, like, really don’t go bad. If you buy fruit that is not fully ripe yet, then as well, leave it outside, next to the apples ideally, and they will ripen by the middle/end of the week.

  Also, veggies?

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There are quite some fruits you better leave in the fridge until they go bad and you can bin them…

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• Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Apples, plums, clementines

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• palordrolap@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Left field answer: Any dried or dessicated fruit, e.g. sultanas, raisins, currants, cranberries, candied peel, etc.

  ... I did not intend those to be in reverse alphabetical order, but that's how they came out.

  Wasteful consumer answer: Tinned (in juice) or those fruit cup things.

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• etchinghillside@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Avocados

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  • JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If and only if they’re ripe.

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    • etchinghillside@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I put unripe in there. Just takes a while for them to ripen.

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• just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Berries will last 3x longer in the fridge than on the counter. Longer if you give them a citric acid or diluted vinegar bath after you bring them home.

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• CameronDev@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Mango, assert dominance over your colleagues. /j

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• HerrVorragend@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  All of them.

  I might be weird, but in my opinion, there is not a single fruit that does not last longer or taste better when it is stored in the fridge.

  Also keeps away those pesky fruit flies.

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  • volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I, as well, store fruit in the fridge because of fruit flies.

    But man I hate cold fruit :(

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  • Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Generally correct, however there are exceptions. Bananas are absolutely wrecked in the fridge

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    • rotateabull@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fun fact, pineapples do not ripen after they have been picked. They will begin to rot which is why they start to soften up on the counter:

      eathealthy365.com/the-definitive-answer-on-ripeni…

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    • False@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, would be more interesting to list the outliers that aren’t better in the fridge.

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    • dickalan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah I thought that too but it turns out only the outside turned shitty

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    • HerrVorragend@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Funny, I find Bananas benefit the most by being stored in the fridge.

      Yes, the peel gets greyish eventually but the inside stays good to eat for much longer.

      Oh well, to each their own I guess.

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• MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Mandarins or clementines last for ages in the fridge, don’t bruise, and taste amazing when cold.

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• angelmountain@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I like melon in my fridge, you cut a portion out, put cling film over the “wound” and it stays good to eat quite nicely.

  Grapes could also be an option IMO.

  Bananas turn greyish which looks weird but still tastes fine.

  But apples from the store have probably been in a fridge for a long time already before coming into the store, because most apples are harvested in autumn and then stored in a fridge, so that works.

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  • Trail@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bananas in the fridge is not a good idea.

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• Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Most fruits, you want to keep at room temperature, in a dry and clean place. Some like it dark.

  Nuts are OK in the cold, fried fruits too.

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• DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Apples.

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  • Steve@communick.news ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This yes! Apples last for several weeks if you keep them cold.

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  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Apples are the only fruit that you can eat really every day.

    With all other fruits, it is better to have it only 1 day, or a few days, then change.

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    • Protoknuckles@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Really? Why?

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