Different cultivars of strawberries? Different growing methods? Theres lots of reasons for the difference.
Shot in the dark, but I bet the top one has a shorter growing cycle per pound.
Top one is bred to look pretty. There are several large farms that realized people don’t buy ugly fruit, we want the pretty bright red strawberries. After many years, we now have a mass selection of tasteless, pretty fruit to pick from.
Thats entirely possible too, less light, less nutrients, less care, I prefer whiter strawberries since they are sweeter than tart myself. But it could just as easily be nurture vs yield as well.
It’s likely the reverse. The bottom one will have a shorter growing cycle.
The top one is selected for firmness and shipping. Delayed ripening is usually linked to these traits in climacteric fruits.
The bottom one is selected for internal color and yield. They can’t be shipped very far though.
In this instance it’s likely a different variety. I would guess it’s a processing variety versus a shipping variety.
Most strawberries for long distance shipping are bred for a lower degree of softening during the ripening process. This is done by selective breeding for a lower expression of expansin activity. This allows for them to have a shelf life of 3 weeks.
Processing varities (preserves, freezing, etc) have a very sort shelf life. Often only 3-4 days. They are selected for the deep red color throughout the fruit as well as yield. This deep red color looks better in the finished products.
I grew up on a farm and strawberries were one of the big crops. You might be right but I think the biggest thing is that they are simply picked green. Not 100% green, but as soon as they show a little red, they are picked. They last MUCH longer this way, but at the cost of flavor. There are different varieties, but those two berries look the same (most of the ones you see are the jewel variety)
The bottom strawberry has about negative one day shelf life. Freeze or use asap. I get a local variety each year from a stand and they turn fast and are only available for short periods of time in the summer.
The top strawberry is probably already a few days old and possibly been frozen and thawed more than once in shipment. These are often grown year round so: off season availability.
Yeah the bottom one looks much more delicious but it’s a “buy it and eat it as you walk away from the stand” kind of thing.
Let’s not pretend strawberries aren’t eaten right away once bought, just give me enough time to get the ice cream and the whipped cream
We have strawberries in our garden, and this is pretty much the case. You either eat/use it when it’s ripe or freeze it.
Mass market fruits are typically underripe when picked so that they can survive transport. Local farms don’t have this issue so they can ripen on the plant.
Fresh strawberries are so fucking tasty
Is the Kroger one the one on the left or right?
The difference is up and down, not left and right
Don’t dead open inside
I did the same thing. “The strawberries look the same to me” followed by “Right…idiot…top and bottom.”
I straw the difference. It’s berry obvious.
Ah yes, the krogers is far more sweet, looking /s
I’m assuming that krogers is a chain shop and is the fully res one right?
Krogers is a massive chain in the US, they also own other chains like Smiths. The white one is theirs, they taste like air.
One is hydroculture, the other earth-grown.
No, one was picked while ripe, the other was picked beforehand. Store bought fruit can’t be picked at the right time because it will rot before it gets to the shelf, unless that store is buying from local farmers. The farmer can wait to pick it when it’s ready, so you get much higher quality fruit that is more colorful, sweeter, and softer than store bought.
Which is which? And what’s Kroger?
Kroger is the largest supermarket chain in the US.
Does Walmart not count as a supermarket chain then? Because I thought, that was your biggest offline store by a long shot…
No, Walmart is a big box retail store. It started as a discount department store and expanded into grocery. Supermarkets are grocery stores that also sale non-grocery items. Walmart is the US’s largest grocer and largest retail chain. The Walmart Supercenters are sometimes referred to as hypermarkets.
What would you say the differences are? I don’t see any.
Edit: I’m an idiot.
The difference is up and down, not left and right
Oh damn, so insane of a difference that I didn’t even fathom that could be the difference! lol
I also Don’t Dead Open Insided the strawberries.
