Why do bananas, broccoli, bell peppers, potatoes and such vegetables require an airtight container? I see those and other produce regularly in plastic wrap or packaging here in Europe.
Obviously not all produce requires it but plastic allows fine control of humidity/moisture. The green onions I buy sealed in plastic last about 3 times longer than those I buy without packaging. Food lasting a long time matters a lot to me, and many others, right now because I try to reduce my shopping trips as much as possible due to the pandemic.
This law is not preventing airtight packaging in weights above 1.5kg and I bet that the store will still get these produce shipped in weights above that. So, what I understand what you are saying is that the hour or so of you picking it up at the shop until you put it in your fridge will result in "losing weeks of storage time", but I can't understand how that is possible. Can you explain?
Throwing a bunch of produce together in large masses is generally a very good way of getting it to rot. Having it shipped, individually wrapped bundles in moisture controlled plastic bags, inside of larger containers, now that works.
Yep. That's a good job picking out the most easily transported and stored produce. Of course you're failing to find photos of giant stacks of leafy greens for a reason.
I don't know about those fruits and vegetables, but cucumbers in particular are often shrink-wrapped in plastic, for good reason. Without the plastic, they go bad much, much faster; a matter of days instead of weeks.
TBH cucumber would go bad for sure much faster than in weeks even in plastic
I usually buy cucumber with intention if preparing something, but get to it like 1-2 weeks later when it starts to get already soft, while it's shrink wrapped, so I really doubt it's really matter of "weeks" unless you mean 2 weeks
I don't know about airtight but bananas have repeatedly made a tacky mess in my backpack. Also salads. Just the other week I had a tofu salad leak all over my backpack :( I'm now wrapping these in plastic bags.
You can use the same bag for many, many salads until one leaks and then you get a new bag. That is significantly better than supermarkets using a new bag for every salad.
