Fruit

[Stephen Wolstenholme]

I'm finding fruit has become tasteless. Just had a mixed fruit snack
from M&S and I couldn't taste anything but the grapes. I thought it
must be me getting older until everyone I told about it agreed that
modern fruit production has abandoned the taste for appearance.

Steve

[graham]

Post by Stephen Wolstenholme
I'm finding fruit has become tasteless. Just had a mixed fruit snack
from M&S and I couldn't taste anything but the grapes. I thought it
must be me getting older until everyone I told about it agreed that
modern fruit production has abandoned the taste for appearance.
Steve

I agree! When I read wine tasting notes, they are all comparing the wine
flavours with fruits. They often mention cherries or plums and IMO they
are pretty well tasteless these days.
Graham

[Jeßus]

Post by graham

Post by Stephen Wolstenholme
I'm finding fruit has become tasteless. Just had a mixed fruit snack
from M&S and I couldn't taste anything but the grapes. I thought it
must be me getting older until everyone I told about it agreed that
modern fruit production has abandoned the taste for appearance.

Appearance and storage qualities.

Post by graham
I agree! When I read wine tasting notes, they are all comparing the wine
flavours with fruits. They often mention cherries or plums and IMO they
are pretty well tasteless these days.

Most of the commercial varieties are tasteless, for sure. One can
still buy green and purple gage plum trees, and good cherry varieties
too (names escape me ATM).

[Bill Ward]

Post by graham

Post by Stephen Wolstenholme
I'm finding fruit has become tasteless. Just had a mixed fruit snack
from M&S and I couldn't taste anything but the grapes. I thought it
must be me getting older until everyone I told about it agreed that
modern fruit production has abandoned the taste for appearance.
Steve

I agree! When I read wine tasting notes, they are all comparing the wine
flavours with fruits. They often mention cherries or plums and IMO they
are pretty well tasteless these days.
Graham

The only plums with the original taste are English Victoria. Sadly their
season is very short.
Bill.

[Chris Green]

Post by Stephen Wolstenholme
I'm finding fruit has become tasteless. Just had a mixed fruit snack
from M&S and I couldn't taste anything but the grapes. I thought it
must be me getting older until everyone I told about it agreed that
modern fruit production has abandoned the taste for appearance.

Yes, I've given up on shop bought fruit, it's all tasteless and
textureless. Once upon a time one could by decent oranges, apples,
etc. but not any more. The apples are always flabby and fairly
tasteless, the oranges are just bland.

We are lucky to have a smallholding with an orchard (we don't depend
on it finacially) so when in season have cherries, plums, apples and
pears. We also grow raspberries. Eating plums and apples off the
trees shows how awful the shop bought ones are. We store some of the
apples and even our badly stored apples are better to eat than bought
ones until December or January.

[TimW]

Post by Chris Green

Post by Stephen Wolstenholme
I'm finding fruit has become tasteless. Just had a mixed fruit snack
from M&S and I couldn't taste anything but the grapes. I thought it
must be me getting older until everyone I told about it agreed that
modern fruit production has abandoned the taste for appearance.

Yes, I've given up on shop bought fruit, it's all tasteless and
textureless. Once upon a time one could by decent oranges, apples,
etc. but not any more. The apples are always flabby and fairly
tasteless, the oranges are just bland.
We are lucky to have a smallholding with an orchard (we don't depend
on it finacially) so when in season have cherries, plums, apples and
pears. We also grow raspberries. Eating plums and apples off the
trees shows how awful the shop bought ones are. We store some of the
apples and even our badly stored apples are better to eat than bought
ones until December or January.

Yes, I think the reasons for it are complicated. It's partly varieties
which are maybe bland to make them marketable, like the famour Golden
Delicious Apple and the Money-Maker Tomato. Also the way the fruit is
handled, stored and brought to ripeness before it arrives on the
shelves. Shop fruit might have been picked weeks previously.

Tim W