Today hosts test crispiness of popular fruit and vegetables
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From apples to carrots, there’s nothing better than biting into a crispy fruit or vegetable.
And that all important crunch can actually tell you how fresh the produce really is, so the Today hosts brought Red Rich Fruits owner, Matt Palise, in to put some of those favourites to the test with an actual decibel reader.
Today hosts measure produce crispiness using a decibel reader. Today
“So when it’s fresh, it’s got a high water content in the cells in the fruit and it pushes against the edge, so that’s what really makes that crunch and that freshness... the crunchier it is, the fresher it is,” Matt said.
A range of produce was tested, with sugar snap peas the first to go up against the decibel reader with a result of 58.
Capsicum came in at 72, while celery measured 75.
Matt said carrot is typically one of the crunchiest produce for measuring freshness, also measuring in the 70s.
The Today hosts tested a new variety of apple too, Cosmic Crisp, which also had a powerful crunch to it.
“When you bite into them, you’re bursting all the cells, so what you want to do to keep things fresh is one, if you cut it, it’ll start to lose that moisture, right? So you want to keep the moisture in,” he said.
“So temperature is your friend, you want to keep things cool and if you can keep it cold, not cut it because it will continue to ripen or metabolise once it’s off the shelf.”
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