Holiday - Sysco Seattle
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STORAGE TIPS…<br />
And Other Fun Facts<br />
APPLES: Must be kept ice cold. Taking<br />
apples from cold storage to warm and back<br />
to cold will cause condensation, which will<br />
break down the wax on the surface, turning<br />
the wax into a whitish film.<br />
By the way…Was the apple really the Forbidden<br />
Fruit in the Garden of Eden? Adam<br />
and Eve were naked, and apples ripen and<br />
color during cold Autumn nights. Some<br />
anthropologists believe it was actually the<br />
Mango.<br />
GRAPES: Should never be stored next to<br />
Green Onions. Grapes will absorb the Green<br />
Onion flavor.<br />
By the way… Grapes are one of the “Mission<br />
Fruits” in California, first taken to California<br />
by the Spanish monks, like Father<br />
Junipero Serra.<br />
TOMATOES: Should not be refrigerated.<br />
These are sub-tropical fruits and do not like<br />
the cold. Cold temperatures kill the flavor,<br />
stop the ripening and break down the molecular<br />
cell structure, causing the fruit to<br />
soften. Fully ripened fruit can be refrigerated,<br />
but not more than 48 hours.<br />
By the way…Tomatoes were once thought<br />
to kill you. In the 1600s, most service ware<br />
was made out of pewter. The acid from the<br />
tomato mixed with the metals in the pewter<br />
and would become toxic. Thomas Jefferson<br />
would walk around the streets of Philadelphia<br />
eating a tomato, proving that they<br />
wouldn’t kill you.<br />
ORANGES: Should be kept in the warmest<br />
part of your walk-in, and should be kept<br />
away from high humidity items, which can<br />
cause the orange to become spotted.<br />
By the way… Re-greening is a natural phenomenon<br />
that is caused by warmer summer<br />
temperatures producing more chlorophyll. It<br />
does not affect the juice or eating quality.<br />
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