Natural or Processed? Avocados Gets a Longer Shelf Life!
When most of your diets consist of the groceries that can be found on the outer perimeters of the supermarket, mainly veggies, beans, grains, nuts, and any other items that may be perishable and have a very short shelf life. Shorter shelf life is a plus. It is the closest to the earth derived verses being manufactured and sitting in some warehouse for months and months before arriving in the stores. Once in the stores, who knows how long it has been sitting there in the stock room. Anything in a box or bag has been processed to the max and may have been deprived of it’s true nutritional value.
Due to all the processing that is going on with our food source, my diet is so limited that you can count my diet on both your hands. Yes, I have become created with what I have. Thank God for creativity. If you’re like me and have a limited diet, there are a plethora of recipes online, just google to find.
I recently learned that Avocados, oh should I say, the “New” avocados will be rolling out to Costco stores in the Midwest. New doesn’t sound like fresh! Currently, technology is being tested to improve to double the shelf life of the avocado and all the other vegetables and fruits. Nectarines and asparagus are next in line to get a longer shelf life. With this technology and in a lab setting has shown how the process on veggies and fruits have doubled shelf life.
Yes, I realize that fresh fruit and vegetables account for more than 40% of wasted food in the United States. Will a longer shelf life stop this? Why not educate consumers on the concept of not wasting or purchasing what is needed and not what’s on sale or like at that moment. Being a conscientious consumers is a great way to eliminate some of this waste. Note, people will always waste in this Country. We are spoiled and have so much so we waste in general.
Longer shelf life allows food to be shipped worldwide and require probably less refrigeration. Okay, but what is being put in our food to give it a longer shelf life? Currently, many are dying of cancer and other diseases and it may be because of what’s in our food. Is there no end to tampering with nature or true organic? When do we stop, how many lives do we destroy and how much greed is enough?
Oh by the way, this new technology will not affect the price or the consumers but will aid the supermarket’s in reducing spoilage. There is a whole process that is involved in making this happen. Accordingly, farmers will increase their productivity and reduce much waste.
For more details, check out an LA Times article that was in yesterday’s Time’s Newspaper. Just wanted to make all aware so that each of you will be an educated consumers. Know what you are buying, what you are eating and your money’s worth? Hope this helps you, to research and read your labels. And lastly, don’t waste, buy what you need and the need amount.
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