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Fresh v Frozen Berries

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  • 11-09-2018 9:38pm
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    TheFortField
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    I juice a mix of fresh blueberries, raspberries, strawberries and blackberries daily. I would normally add the juice to sweeten a dark green vegetable smoothie. I have a decent juicer but for the money spent on fresh berries, the yield isn't very high. It feels wasteful.

    I'm wondering should I eat fresh berries and use bags for frozen berries for juicing? Is there much of a nutritional difference? There certainly is a massive price difference between fresh and frozen.


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    Tar.Aldarion
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    A note about imported frozen berries https://www.fsai.ie/faq/frozen_berries.html
    apart from that there is not much difference in nutrition in frozen and fresh food.


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    GreeBo
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    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    A note about imported frozen berries https://www.fsai.ie/faq/frozen_berries.html
    apart from that there is not much difference in nutrition in frozen and fresh food.

    I've been having a smoothie eveyrday for the last 2 years with Lidl/Aldi frozen berries without issue.
    Buying fresh will render it economically unviable and boiling them before use wouldn't make for a nice smoothie!

    I wonder could you boil a batch and then just refreeze them...?


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    davidjtaylor
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    What I like about frozen berries is - if you're adding fresh stuff, the frozen stuff stops the smoothie heating up too much. Our liquidiser makes things warm (you can make soup in it if you liquidise for 6 or 7 minutes).

    With all fresh, I have to add ice cubes prior to smoothing anyway, so frozen berries are handy.


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    _Brian
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    GreeBo wrote: »
    I've been having a smoothie eveyrday for the last 2 years with Lidl/Aldi frozen berries without issue.
    Buying fresh will render it economically unviable and boiling them before use wouldn't make for a nice smoothie!

    I wonder could you boil a batch and then just refreeze them...?

    Booking would damage much of the benofet of fruit altogether.

    We use frozen from Aldi as it keeps the smoothie cold.


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    Tar.Aldarion
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    GreeBo wrote: »
    I've been having a smoothie eveyrday for the last 2 years with Lidl/Aldi frozen berries without issue.
    Buying fresh will render it economically unviable and boiling them before use wouldn't make for a nice smoothie!

    I wonder could you boil a batch and then just refreeze them...?

    It's a very low chance, just what's recommended. I'm pretty sure most people don't do it and there are only a few cases per year. Are there Irish frozen ones around? Could use those either.


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    GreeBo
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    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    It's a very low chance, just what's recommended. I'm pretty sure most people don't do it and there are only a few cases per year. Are there Irish frozen ones around? Could use those either.

    Aldi/Lidl seem to have removed their boil notices, they deffo had signs up a year or two ago.


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    Tilikum17
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    GreeBo wrote: »
    Aldi/Lidl seem to have removed their boil notices, they deffo had signs up a year or two ago.

    I usually buy fresh fruit. This week I went with the frozen fruit in Aldi.

    Good lord some of it is very sour.


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    GreeBo
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    Tilikum17 wrote: »
    I usually buy fresh fruit. This week I went with the frozen fruit in Aldi.

    Good lord some of it is very sour.

    What are you using it for?
    I've never noticed an issue in my smoothies but there are lots of other ingredients


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    davidjtaylor
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    Tilikum17 wrote: »
    I usually buy fresh fruit. This week I went with the frozen fruit in Aldi.

    Good lord some of it is very sour.

    Most industrial fruit is picked under-ripe of course! This isn’t usually too much of a problem for non-frozen fruit because of commercial dictates but really, frozen stuff should be <I>just</I> ripe when it’s frozen. Quality control, how are ya?

    I’d bring it to Aldi’s attention.


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