2ND send: IMAGES REMOVED: Summary of fruit & vegetable storage information

[Alice Henneman]

Hi Everyone,

Some of the information I sent in my earlier e-mail included some images 
from one of the respondents. I just learned not all e-mail systems are 
accepting these anymore. Here's a second version with this section removed.

Here is a collation of the responses I received on Internet sources of 
information about storing fruits and vegetables.

Thank you all so much!

I gave up on trying to list the number of times each site was mentioned and 
just cut-and-paste from everyone's e-mails.

Alice

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Hi Alice!

Here are some possibilities for you to check out:

www.aboutproduce.com

http://postharvest.ucdavis.edu/Produce/Storage/  Check the one page list for
Storing Fresh Fruits and Vegetables for Better Flavor

http://www.fmi.org/consumer/foodkeeper/search.htm


--Shirley  :-)
"Life is a work of art, designed by the one who lives it.

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Hi!
I came across this site when I was looking for information regarding
carrots.  It is a commercial site and not all of the information do I
agree with but it does have great pictures and information about storing
fruits and vegetables.

www.sallys-place.com

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Alice,

Check out the postharvest information at UC-Davis:
http://postharvest.ucdavis.edu/Pubs/postthermo2.html

They have a temperature storage chart that might be helpful.

Barbara

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The best source that I know of is a book called: Keeping Food Fresh by
Janet Bailey.

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Heres one from the Canadian produce marketing association:
http://www.cpma.ca/english/m_storage.html

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Alice,

NMSU Coop. Ext. has a page for safe storage of foods.  Fruits & vegetables
are mixed in with other foods, listed alphabetically.

http://www.cahe.nmsu.edu/pubs/_e/e-118.html

Louise E. Ingraham, MS, RD, LN
Louise E. Ingraham Consulting
337 Oso Ridge Route
Grants, NM  87020-9405
505-783-4192 voice
505-783-4493 fax
ingraham at cia-g.com
www.cia-g.com/~ingraham

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Dear Alice,
Go to the "Food Keeper" brochure from the Food Marketing Institute (and editted
by Bob Gravani and me) at
http://www.fmi.org/consumer/foodkeeper/brochure.cfm

This brochure gives information about how to store many kinds of foods,
including many individual fruits and vegetables, in the pantry, refrigerator or
freezer.  It will be revised in a third edition in the near future, but the
present version is certainly useful now.  Some of the storage times are fairly
"conservative" (meaning shorter than I have experienced at home, myself), but
they are meant to be general guidelines, not concrete rules.

People can order single or multiple copies of The FoodKeeper from the Food
Marketing Institute by contacting:

Publication Sales at FMI
Food Marketing Institute
655 15th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.  20005
Phone: (202) 220-0600
FAX: (202) 429-4550

Prices are:     $0.75 per copy,
                 $30.00 per hundred or more copies, and
                 $300.00 per thousand or more copies.

For individual requests, FMI asks that consumers mail them $0.75 along with a
business-sized, self-addressed, stamped envelope.

I hope this is helpful,
Donna Scott

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look at aboutproduce.com


Tracy A. Fox, MPH, RD
President, Food, Nutrition & Policy Consultants, LLC
5927 Beech Ave.
Bethesda, MD 20817
ph/fax: 301-564-0737
tfox at capu.net

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Alice
Here are two web sites that I have bookmarked in addition to
aboutproduce.com

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/veggies/broccoli1.html

http://www.crfg.org/pubs/frtfacts.html

Hope these might be of assistance.

Carol Jackson
Corporate Manager-Home Economics/Consumer Services
Jerry's Foods
5101 Vernon Ave S
Edina, MN 55436
952-928-1672

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Best web site is: aboutproduce.com

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Alice,

See our links page to all of the fruit and vegetable associations at:
http://www.foodandhealth.com/links/Food_Links/Vegetables/
http://www.foodandhealth.com/links/Food_Links/Fruits/

Additionally, I have a chart that shows purchasing/storage tips for many 
vegetables. It is in PDF format.

Judy
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Hi Alice,
Hope all is well. I found some interesting information on www.5aday.com
Take care! Joanne

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Alice,
You may already have this information, but there is some of the information 
that you wanted here.
http://5aday.com/programs/foodservice.html

Stephany

Stephany Parker, MS
Community Nutrition Education Programs Nutritionist
Oklahoma State University Cooperative Extension Service
Visit our website at:  http://www.fcs.okstate.edu/cnep

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Have you tried:
     www.aboutproduce.com ?

Carol R. Miller, RD, M.Ed, LD
Nutrition Consultant
Maryland Department of Health
Division of Cardiovascular Health & Nutrition
6 St. Paul Street, Suite 1202
Baltimore, MD 21202
410-767-6782 (phone)
410-333-8926 (fax)
millerc at dhmh.state.md.us

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Amer. Inst. for Cancer Research (AICR) has a refrigerator
magnet with info on storage of fresh fruits & veggies.
I haven't seen it so I'm not sure how much info. it
contains.  I believe you can get further info by calling
1-800-843-8114.

(NOTE: After receiving this e-mail, I checked with AICR and learned that 
the magnet is currently in production and they are taking orders for it now 
- Alice).

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Alice,

The best site I know of is
http://postharvest.ucdavis.edu/Produce/Storage/index.html

You might also want to look at their home page at
http://postharvest.ucdavis.edu

They also have some excellent print material available.

Nancy Hudson

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Alice,

The Food and Nutrition Information Center has several wonderful links to
Food Preservation sites.  The topic Food Preservation is listed on the
Topics A-Z page at: http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/etext/fnic.html
The Virginia Cooperative Extension also has a good publication called Food
Storage Guidelines for Consumers available at
http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/foods/348-960/348-960.html

Best Regards,

Alicia White, MS, RD
Nutrition Information Specialist
Food and Nutrition Information Center
National Agricultural Library
10301 Baltimore Avenue, Rm 105
Beltsville, MD 20705
(301) 504-6053

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Dear Group members,
suggest you look at consumer fact sheets at this site:-

http://www.foodscience.afisc.csiro.au/consumer.htm

Regards,
Robert

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