Awful, awful trash. If I see it in a recipe I disregard it entirely because clearly the author has defective taste buds and cannot be trusted. Don't hate me for being right.

  • lvysaur [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Looks play a large role as well. It has to look good on the shelves

    yeah I agree, but looks are at least a crapshoot--the best tasting fruit usually does look somewhat good, at least for sweet fruits.

    a perfectly ripe bartlet pear is solid yellow, a perfect mango is solid orange. they use artificial ripening gas on unripe fruits, and this results in them getting even redder than normal, better looking but tasteless. so colorful, but not too colorful

    for stuff like mangoes and apples, a lack of green is definitely good, it means it's ripe. For apples in particular, the best ones I've had have always been more colorful and pinker than usual, although the shapes were often odd and they had warts and welts.

    idk much about tomatoes, I know some tomatoes are naturally green