How to keep strawberries fresh: 12 steps

Preparing strawberries for storage

At the time of purchase, you should carefully choose the berry, as well as the container in which it is stored. If nutmeg strawberries are darker than they should be, soft, and pulp remains on the walls of the container, then you should not choose them. If even a few strawberries are covered with mold, then this is a sign of staleness.

If you have your own garden, then for storage it is necessary to collect only completely red fruits, but at the same time solid ones. Otherwise, they will quickly become soft.

After the purchase, you need to sort out the strawberries, even if you want to immediately put them in the refrigerator. Fruits that have become soft, covered with mold or rot - remove immediately without hesitation. If this is not done, then the entire batch of berries will quickly deteriorate.

For storage, choose the right container to prolong the freshness of the nutmeg strawberries. In this case, a basket made of cardboard or wood, which has holes for good air ventilation, or a plastic colander would be ideal. Many housewives leave strawberries in the packaging in which they were sold in the store. This is not worth doing.

Attention!

The freshness of the berries can be extended by storing them in a thin layer in the container of your choice. In this case, the container must be open.

Some women prefer to wash the entire berry batch at once, than make a gross mistake. Wash nutmeg strawberries just before eating, otherwise they will deteriorate faster, as they quickly absorb water. Use paper towels to remove excess moisture. They must be laid under each layer of the product.

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In case of severe contamination of strawberries, they can not only be washed, but also wiped off with vinegar solution. This approach will get rid of bacteria on the surface of the berries. But its use will be advisable if there is a lot of spoiled product in one of the purchased containers.

To prepare the solution, you must mix vinegar with water in a ratio of 1: 3. You can rinse each berry separately or use a spray bottle.

Berry selection and preparation for storage

If the berry is purchased on the market, you should pay attention to:

Appearance. The attractive appearance indicates that the berry is healthy, not affected by fungal diseases and pests, and is suitable for consumption.
Colour. It is better to choose red strawberries for storage. The burgundy color of the berries indicates their ripeness, such berries are stored worse, quickly deteriorate and choke during transportation.
Dense pulp. The harder the strawberry is to the touch, the better and longer it will last. This does not mean that you have to choose unripe fruits that are completely hard to the touch. The pulp of a ripe berry should be firm.

After buying berries, they need to be cleaned of grass and other debris, and the stalks must also be torn off. The stalk must be torn off on the same day when the berry was purchased, because in the future it will be more difficult to do this - the berry will become very deformed over time. The berry, cleared of stalks and debris, can be immediately removed for storage.

Washing strawberries is carried out just before eating. Strawberries quickly absorb water, their taste becomes less intense and sweet, and the flesh itself becomes flooded. It is allowed to wash the berries before harvesting for storage, but then the strawberries are well dried. To dry the berries, use paper towels or newspaper, put the berry on the material in one layer and leave for several hours. Dry berries can be stored.

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Dried strawberries

In addition to freezing in whole or pureed, at home, you can store dried strawberries without freezing. To do this, the selected berries should be laid out on a baking sheet, previously covered with parchment paper, and the oven should be turned on at 50 ° C (barely warm).

Opening the oven door, dry the berries for 4-5 hours until they become dry and shrink. Remove the baking sheet from the oven, let the berries cool completely (2-3 hours) and transfer to a clean, dry glass jar.

You can also make dried strawberries for the winter in a special food dryer. Place the prepared berries in the dryer, set the "Fruit" mode according to the instructions and make a blank. Take out the strawberries, let them cool for 2-3 hours and store in a dry glass container under a lid at a temperature not exceeding 20 ° C and a relative humidity of up to 70% in a place where the sun's rays do not fall: in the pantry, kitchen cabinet, on the mezzanine, etc. . NS.

For brewing in a teapot, you can prepare fresh strawberries in bunches. To do this, select the branches with berries, remove the damaged leaves. Dry by tying bunches of 5-7 twigs in a dry, well-ventilated place in the heat (balcony or attic in summer). Store, like dried berries, in a glass jar, in a dry and dark place at a temperature not exceeding 20 ° C, at a relative humidity of up to 70 °. This semi-finished product can be added to a teacup or teapot.

The shelf life of dried strawberries is up to 6 months at a temperature not exceeding 20 ° C and relative humidity up to 70% in a dark place.

Evacuated strawberry

The use of a modern vacuum apparatus should also be added to the methods of storing fresh strawberries. With its help, you can extend the shelf life of fresh berries in the freezer or dried at room temperature by 1.5 times.

The prepared berries are laid out in bags, then evacuated and stored in a suitable way:

fresh - in the freezer for up to 1 year at a temperature of -18 ° C and below;
dried - in a cool dry place for up to 1 year at a temperature not exceeding 20 ° С.

To preserve the taste of berries even longer, they are used to prepare:

marshmallow;
jam;
jam;
compotes;
canned in their own juice.

All of these canned items can be stored until the next harvest in a pantry, cellar, and even a kitchen cabinet. But, unfortunately, thermally processed berries contain an order of magnitude less vitamins.

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Where to store strawberries at home

Strawberries are about 80% liquid, which does not contribute to their long-term storage. It easily wrinkles and deforms even with weak impact. In addition, due to its protruding seeds and pores, the berry may contain dust, dirt particles that can cause rotting. Therefore, the storage of strawberries must be taken very seriously.

Before telling where to store strawberries at home, it should be noted where exactly they CANNOT be stored:

indoors at room temperature and higher - the berry can quickly ferment or mold
in metal unenamelled dishes - acids contained in strawberries can react with metal
in a tightly sealed container - evaporation of liquid from the berries can lead to the rapid growth of mold.

Where can strawberries be stored at home? The rules are:

a) cool, ideally - in the refrigerator at a temperature no higher than 6 degrees above zero

b) in plastic, glass or, in extreme cases, enameled containers

c) loosely closed - it is best to cover the vessel with a cloth or paper to ensure air exchange.

This applies to storage in the regular compartment of the refrigerator. However, strawberries can be stored at home and in the freezer. The third option is storing strawberries with sugar. The options in the freezer and / or sprinkled with sugar are designed for longer storage of the berries at home.

Freezing

You can store strawberries in the freezer for up to 1 year, but since this berry is 90% water, there is a risk that after it is completely thawed, it will lose its shape.

Before freezing, remove the sepals, wash and dry the berries. Strawberries can be frozen like this:

Entirely. In this case, it can be simply served or used for chocolate fondue. Since thawed berries are softer than usual, they are more difficult to cut into neat slices, but they are easy to mash in puree. To protect the workpieces from deoxidation, you can dip them in yogurt or melted chocolate in advance - you get a ready-made candy.
Chopped into wedges. Neat pieces are great for decorating pastries and other desserts. In addition, in this case, the strawberries will freeze more evenly and faster.
In the form of mashed potatoes. It is used for smoothies or cocktails, as a filling for baked goods, etc. Even soft berries are suitable for such a preparation.

Whole berries or wedges can be placed in plastic or glass containers suitable for freezing, or in ziplock bags. For storing mashed potatoes, ice or ice cream trays are used, as well as portioned cups.

Defrosted puree can be used to make many desserts

Prepared strawberries can be poured with sugar syrup before freezing. It helps to better preserve the taste, aroma and shape of the fruit, but in this case they turn out to be very sweet, which not everyone likes. In addition, it will be more difficult to use part of the blank.

To prepare the syrup, dilute the sugar with water in a 1: 1 ratio. Condemn the preparation in the refrigerator, then pour the berries so that they are completely covered. Such syrup can also be added to mashed potatoes, in which case about 4 parts of sugar are used for 5 parts of berries.

You can also store strawberries in pectin syrup - it holds the shape of the berries worse, but it will not make them too sweet. The proportions for its preparation should be indicated on the package.

If you plan to store strawberries without syrup, first arrange the berries in one layer on a tray and freeze for several hours. Only then put them in a container, otherwise they will stick together. Leave about 1.5-2 cm of free space - the berries expand when they freeze.

To prevent the berries from freezing, first freeze each one separately.

You need to defrost the berries gradually, in the refrigerator. Quick defrosting, such as in the microwave, will make them too soft. It is desirable to eat them still cold.

Landing rules

The mustache is planted in two ways: in a pot and in open ground. The decision on the method is taken by the gardener, taking into account the area of the site and the possibility of maintaining the seedling. For the potting method, resort to the following actions:

Choose the strongest strawberry whisker.
Prepare the soil: mix it with organic fertilizer.
Close up half capacity.
A process is placed in it, without tearing it off the mother tree.
Watered with water every day until roots form.
After 10 days, the stem of the attachment is slightly cut so that the new bush gets used to independent existence.
14 days after planting, the seedling is completely separated from the mother plant.

For planting in open ground, follow certain instructions:

Prepare a bed in advance.
Dig up the site, remove stones and weeds.
Organic fertilizers are applied.
The mustache is cut off, leaving a 20 cm long process, and the roots not less than 15 mm.
Dig holes 5 cm deep.
Pour a small amount of water into each.
Close up seedlings to a depth of 5 cm.
Sprinkle with water every day until rooting.

After rooting, manipulation can be carried out, which increases the endurance and resistance of strawberries to adverse conditions. After such a procedure, the bushes will not be afraid of showers, rains, hail, sudden changes in temperature. They make beds in the "Norwegian manner". For this, several procedures are carried out:

The garden bed is equipped with high boards on all sides.
Cover with a transparent film.
A few cm are left on top for airing.
Carefully monitor watering and loosening of the soil.

This procedure helps the seedlings to take root better, increases their survival rate, makes them strong and hardy.

2> Storage methods

The easiest option is to eat the berries fresh, while most of the beneficial components are present in them. But the fruiting period of the culture (traditional varieties) is too short, and I want to feast on delicious fruits at other times of the year.

In addition, when berries are collected in buckets, it is difficult for even a large family to immediately overpower the harvest (which is not harmless to well-being). Therefore, it is necessary to consider ways of storing garden strawberries.

Among them:

fresh in the refrigerator and without it;
freezing;
drying;
drying.

The choice depends on the requests of the owners, the corresponding conditions in the apartment or house. You do not need a refrigerator to store berries during the day, but to save the harvest until the New Year holidays, it is difficult to do without a freezer.

If you plan to store the crop for a long time, it is recommended to choose varieties and hybrids that are characterized by increased keeping quality, suitable for transportation, and retain their presentation even after a long journey.

Methods and conditions for storing strawberries

The average fruit weight is 20-40 grams. Fresh strawberry pulp is firm and firm. It is customary to store only fresh berries that are not touched by mold or rot. Spoiled fruits are harvested for processing or destroyed.

Fresh

In order to keep fresh strawberries as long as possible, it is recommended to pick them from the bushes in the morning, provided that the dew has already dried. Wet or damp strawberries are susceptible to rotting, so they should be left on a napkin or towel to dry naturally.

Freezing

If you properly freeze the berries in the freezer, then they will almost not lose their taste. After defrosting, the whole fruit will be much softer than fresh, but retain its flavor and color.

There are several options for freezing:

whole and dry fruits are frozen on pallets, then the raw materials are poured into one container;
the strawberries are cut with a slicer, laid out on a pallet, frozen, then poured together and put into the freezer;
the strawberries are smashed with a blender, the resulting puree is poured into small plastic containers, covered with a lid, and placed on top of each other.

Drying

Dried strawberries are added to tea and used for baking. The fruits are dried using an oven or electric dryer. To do this, it is enough to cut the strawberries into slices and spread them on a baking sheet away from each other.

After drying, only a small part of the pulp remains. This is due to the fact that the culture is 90% water. After drying, the slices remain fragrant, healthy and tasty.

Fruit leather

To prepare fruit skins, mashed potatoes are spread on a sheet of parchment in a thin even layer and dried at a low temperature.After cooling, the fruit skin is cut into slices, sprinkled with powdered sugar.

In fridge

Fresh fruits are refrigerated. There she can lie without loss of qualities from 2-3 days to 1 week.

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During storage, it is recommended to additionally lay the bottom of the container under the strawberries with a paper towel so that excess moisture is immediately absorbed. The towel is changed every day.

Attention! Do not store strawberries in a tightly wrapped plastic bag. Condensation forms inside, which leads to an increase in the wateriness of the pulp and subsequent rotting

Strawberry puree

Strawberry processing is one of the ways to harvest for the winter. Slightly spoiled berries are suitable for making mashed potatoes, as well as fruits that have lost their shape due to a low keeping rate. Mashed potatoes are prepared with sugar at the rate of 1 kilogram of sugar to 1 kilogram of raw materials.

In sugar syrup

One of the favorite homemade treats is strawberry jam. To get a blank with whole strawberries, they are boiled in sugar syrup. For 1 kilogram of strawberries, take 300 milliliters of water and 800 grams of sugar. Prepared strawberries are poured with sugar syrup, and then put the pan on the stove and begin to bring to a boil.

In the fridge or not

When picking cherries on your own, you need to try to preserve the tails. The shelf life of such fruits is increased, and primary damage is prevented, which reduces the likelihood of the appearance of fungal mold and microbes

When buying cherries in the market or in a store, you should pay attention to its appearance. Fresh cherries should be free from dents, stains and sour smell

In order for the fruits to be stored longer, it is necessary to correctly determine the degree of ripeness of the berries. They should have a uniform color, a darkened stalk at the place of its attachment to the berry, elastic density.

There are a number of useful tips, the use of which greatly affects the shelf life of fresh cherries.

Pick ripe fresh berries early in the morning, when the flesh is at its fullest;
Leave the cutting, since it accumulates a large amount of moisture and nutrients, and when buying, give preference to a crop with a large number of cuttings;
If possible, do not rinse the cherries intended for storage;
Go through the collected or purchased fruits, leaving only dense fresh cherries for storage, which do not have signs of decay, cracks, dents, peeled peels and wormholes;

Many people wonder how long cherries can be stored in the refrigerator. Best of all, these garden gifts will be stored on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator compartment or in the fruit compartment.

Do not keep fruits next to apples or bananas.

The fruits are well stored in the refrigerator. at temperatures from+2 to +8 degrees. This is the optimal temperature regime that will not allow the fresh crop to overripe. On average, the shelf life of a crop in a refrigerator is about two weeks.

For a longer period, the storage temperature of cherries should not fall below -1 and rise above +1 degrees.

Long-term storage of the crop in the refrigerator increases the concentration of vitamin C. This becomes most noticeable around the fifth and subsequent days.

Refrigerated storage in glass containers with airtight lids is ideal. Fresh cherry or cherry leaves are placed on the bottom of the selected dish, and the fruits are carefully laid out in layers on top of them. To prevent drying out, the container with the fresh crop is tightly covered with a lid.

The crop retains freshness well when stored in a tight paper bag. Placed in the lower tray of the refrigerator compartment, the bag will ensure the safety of fresh fruits. Plastic containers are also suitable for storage.However, such a container is not closed with a lid, but covered on top with a paper towel or a sheet of thick paper.

It is not recommended to put a large amount of fresh cherries in plastic containers.

Many people wonder about storing cherries, whether it is possible to keep them in the room. The shelf life of fresh crops at room temperature is reduced to several hours. If it is not possible to keep fresh berries in the refrigerator, you should resort to other methods that provide longer storage.

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How to store strawberries in the refrigerator

The length of time that strawberries can be stored will depend on the storage method chosen and the desired shelf life for food. depending on this, the preparatory measures will also change.

If you plan to consume all available berries for a week, you can store strawberries in the refrigerator in the general compartment. In this case, you cannot wash the berries before placing them for storage, since if there is moisture on the surface of the berries, the strawberries will very quickly (within a few hours) lose their density and begin to rot.

Before placing in the refrigerator, the berries must be sorted out, removing rotten and damaged specimens. Otherwise, rot will spread very quickly over the berries and spoil stocks. Also, before placing in the refrigerator, the stalks should not be removed from the berries.

It is best to store fresh strawberries in open containers - on a large plate that is not tightly covered with plastic wrap, or in a food container with a loose lid. The berries cannot be sealed, they will "suffocate" and quickly become unusable.

How long fresh strawberries can be stored will depend on the temperature in the cooking space. At a temperature of + 2 ... + 6, the shelf life of berries will be up to three days, at a temperature of 0 ... + 2 - up to five days.

If you want to provide a supply of berries for the whole year, until the next season, it is best to freeze them.

There are two ways in this case: store whole strawberries, or store strawberries grated with sugar. In the first case, a better preservation of the aroma of the berries is ensured, and in the second case, a longer storage period for the berries is ensured.

In this case, in addition to removing damaged berries, you will also need to wash the strawberries, and then remove the stalks. If the stalks were removed before placing the berries in the water, due to the active accumulation of moisture by the strawberries, it may lose its aroma.

When storing whole berries, they are placed on a baking sheet so that they do not touch each other. Otherwise, the berries will freeze among themselves, which will make their further use inconvenient. The strawberries thus decomposed are placed in the freezer. When the berries are completely hardened, they are placed in plastic bags and placed in the freezer for storage. At a temperature of -18 degrees, the shelf life of strawberries in this form will be about ten months. The disadvantages of this method include a fairly large volume of freezer space occupied by stocks of strawberries. Of the advantages - in fact, the complete identity of thawed berries with fresh ones. For example, they can be used with similar success to make strawberry ice cream.

For a more compact and long-term storage of strawberries, you can grind them with sugar. To do this, after a preparation similar to the previous method, the berries are ground with sugar in a one-to-one ratio. The resulting mass is placed in containers for food and stored in a freezer at a temperature of -16 ... -18 degrees.

The storage period for strawberries in this form is quite long, but in order to prevent the appearance of putrefactive bacteria, it is advisable to use the entire available stock until next year.

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How to prepare a berry for storage in the refrigerator

In a vase on the table, strawberries will last a maximum of 12 hours, in the refrigerator - 2-7 days, if it is of high quality. Before storing strawberries at home, you need to prepare them for storage:

We use only fresh berries for storage, which did not have time to soften, darken and deteriorate. If fragments of berries remain on the walls of the container with purchased strawberries, it will "live" in the refrigerator for no more than 12 hours. If you need to know how to properly store strawberries harvested in your own garden, we choose only red and hard specimens that have not had time to soften.
We sort out the collected or purchased berries, rejecting spoiled and too soft. If at least one moldy berry remains in the container with strawberries, mold will cover many others during storage.

How to store fresh strawberries

Before storing fresh strawberries, take a cardboard box, wooden container or plastic container: they must have holes for air circulation.
We put the unwashed berry (wash it just before use) in the container, shifting the layers with paper towels: they will absorb excess moisture. We lay the strawberries with their petioles down, but not tightly: between them there should be 0.5-1 cm of free space. Berries in contact with barrels become waterlogged, soften and deteriorate in the next few hours after it was decided to store strawberries at home.

If there were a lot of moldy berries in the harvested crop, it does not hurt to disinfect with vinegar water. Mix water with table vinegar in a ratio of 3 to 1, pour it into a spray bottle and spray the berries before storing the strawberries in the refrigerator.

You can simply wash the berries in the resulting solution. After that, we certainly dry the strawberries, spreading the berries at a distance from each other on kitchen or paper towels. Excess moisture will contribute to the rapid decay of strawberry fruits.

Learn to choose strawberries when shopping

The correct choice of strawberries when buying is a guarantee of longer storage. Even if there are only a few spoiled berries among the purchased berries, then you will have to eat such strawberries on the same day, since they will not be stored.

That is why, in the event that you plan to use berries on other days, it is very important to choose them carefully when buying.

Take a closer look at the container in which the strawberries are packed. If you see darkened samples among the berries or pieces of pulp are noticeable on the walls of the container, then you have strawberries in front of you, which can no longer be called fresh.

Only undamaged, dry and dense berries with a green stalk can be stored.

By the way, when harvesting on the site, do not wait for the strawberries to become too soft: pick ripe but hard fruits. You can store just such strawberries in a cold place for a week, if necessary.

How to keep fruits for the winter

To keep your strawberries fresh, you need to:

do not wash the berries before laying;
prepare containers with holes;
spray with a vinegar solution to exclude crop mold;
dry the fruits by spreading them out on paper towels or napkins.

Put the berries in 1 layer so that they do not come into contact with each other in barrels.

How to store fresh strawberries in the refrigerator

In the lower compartment of the refrigerator, where the air temperature reaches +2 degrees Celsius, garden strawberries can remain fresh for up to 2-7 days.

Before storage, it is necessary to spread the dense berries at a distance of 0.5-1 centimeters from each other. It is better to take containers from wood, cardboard or plastic.From above, the berries are covered with a cotton cloth or gauze in 2 layers. So the air will circulate, not stagnate.

Remember to monitor the condition of the fruit every 2 days. If mold appears, it is better to eat healthy fruits or for making desserts.

Freezing

Freezing has long been used as an effective way to preserve the harvest of berries. Whole fruit specimens are selected, put them in a container in one row, after drying them. Cover with cling film on top. Once the berries are frozen, they can be put into bags and left in the freezer.

Frozen fresh immediately after harvest. Strawberries are placed in containers with the stalks up, placing them in the chamber.

Better to freeze the strawberries in sugar. For this, the whole fruits laid out in a container are sprinkled with granulated sugar. In winter, such strawberries will decorate desserts and drinks.

It is worth pouring syrup over whole berries or their halves. To do this, prepare a filling of 300 grams of sugar per liter of water. When the syrup boils, add 5 grams of citric acid or a tablespoon of freshly squeezed lemon juice. After the syrup has cooled, they are poured with strawberries in a container, put in the freezer.

Strawberry puree will also be delicious. Prepare it by grinding strawberries in a blender. Then mix the berry mass with sugar in a 1: 1 ratio. Put the puree in a container and freeze. In winter, you can cut off pieces of the product, adding to porridge, cottage cheese, drinks. A cocktail made from kefir, banana and 2-3 tablespoons of frozen puree is also tasty.

Candying

The color and aroma of garden strawberries can be preserved throughout the year if candied fruits are cooked. For cooking:

pick up fruits of the same size;
washed under running water;
put in a colander, leave for better drainage of water;
berries are placed in a saucepan, covered with sugar in layers (400 grams per 1 kilogram of berries);
keep under the lid for a day;
the resulting juice is drained by adding sugar to it;
bring the syrup to a boil and lower the berries there for 7 minutes;
make sure that the pulp is not boiled.

Now it remains to get the fruits with a slotted spoon, free them from excess syrup by holding them in a colander. It is necessary to dry the finished product in a dryer or oven at a temperature of 50 degrees. To do this, lay out the berries on a wire rack or baking sheet covered with parchment paper. The finished products are put in dry jars, sterilized in advance. Store covered in a refrigerator or closet.

They use candied berries instead of sweets, add to baked goods, muffins, pastries, cakes. And the syrup left over from cooking can be poured into jars and refrigerated.

Storing dried strawberries

The easiest way is to dry the berries in the oven. To do this, take whole fruits or cut them into 2 parts. For tea, it can be cut into cubes, slices. The product is washed, laid out on a towel to dry. Heat the cabinet to 45 degrees, put a baking sheet with strawberry slices laid out in 1 layer. You can lay parchment paper on a baking sheet. During the drying period, the berries are turned over several times. At the end of the procedure, you can increase the air temperature to 60-70 degrees. If, when squeezed, the fruits do not stick to the fingers, then they are ready for storage.

The temperature regime in the strawberry dryer is set at 50-55 degrees. Slices with a thickness of 4 millimeters dry faster. Fruits should be placed on the wire rack in 1 layer so that they do not come into contact with each other.

In the airfryer, the process is faster. The berries are ready in 1-2 hours. They do not need to be turned over, as the process runs smoothly.

Strawberry storage methods

There are several main ways to store fresh fruit. How long the crop will be stored depends on the processing method.

Main storage methods:

If the fruit is purchased in a container with ventilation holes, then it can be stored in it. You need to eat them within 2 days.
If you put a paper towel at the bottom of a container (dish or bowl), put the berries on it and refrigerate, then they will remain fresh for a week. Storage temperature - 0 ... + 2 ° С. As the temperature rises, the shelf life will decrease.
Mix 1.5 cups of water and 1/4 cup of vinegar. Submerge whole specimens in liquid for 5 minutes. Drain the water. Rinse with cold water. Dry the fruit with a paper towel. Place a fresh paper towel in a container with berries on top of it. Place in refrigerator. Strawberries will stay fresh for 2 weeks.

If you do not plan to consume the fruit within a few days, freezing is the best way to store it. These berries can be used in smoothies, baked goods, or other treats.

Read about the health benefits of frozen strawberries.
You can also dry strawberries.

Important! The berries are 91% water, so they will dry out very much. Another way of harvesting is "fruit skin"

There is very little pectin in strawberries, therefore, when they dry, they will break. To make flexible fruit puree sheets, mix equal parts applesauce and strawberry puree

Another way of harvesting is "fruit leather". There is very little pectin in strawberries, therefore, when they dry, they will break. To make flexible fruit puree sheets, mix equal parts applesauce and strawberry puree.

The parchment is then oiled to prevent sticking. Prepared puree is placed on it and dried in a dehydrator. Fruit layers are obtained, which can be used as a stand-alone dessert, like chips.