Kitchen Tip: Store Produce in its Original Packaging

July 3, 2008

Here is an interesting tip on making your vegetables last as long as possible: keep produce in its original packaging. Often, vegetables are sold in bags that preserve their freshness the longest, such as greens being packaged in bags that allow ethylene, a gas that causes ripening, to escape. Other vegetables as you may have noticed, such as carrots or celery, come in bags with small holes. These allow gases to escape while still preventing moisture loss.

Companies want their produce on the shelves as long as possible, so they package in a way that will achieve that. I always used to put everything in air-tight ziploc bags, but no more!

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