Holiday - Sysco Seattle

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