Summer season comes bearing the colours of joy and those colours can be well spotted in the kaleidoscopic seasonal fruits and vegetables. In India, people tend to welcome the summer season with a smile despite the scorching heat, especially when they factor in the delicious summer fruits and vegetables in the cards. But procuring your stock of fresh summer produce, might not be half as difficult as making it last.

Before your fresh stock of fruits and vegetables takes the form of mouldy, bruised and wilted produce ready to become compost material, read on to discover 5 proven ways of keeping fruits and vegetables fresh longer.

1. Wash your greens in ice-cold water

An ice bath is an effective way of locking the moisture in your green vegetables, cooling them down, and avoiding that wilted appearance old greens tend to take on after some time. All you need to do is wash your greens in ice-cold water to revive the moisture, followed by patting them dry with some paper towels. Now, after tossing aside any rotten leaves, place your clean and dried fresh produce in an air-tight container.

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2. Freeze some of your fruits & veggies

When it comes to storing your fresh produce, preservation is truly better than cure. An effective strategy for keeping your fruits and vegetables fresh longer involves freezing them. A technique well mastered by frozen food brands, you can freeze items such as bell peppers, green beans, broccoli, brussel sprouts, cabbage, strawberries, mushrooms and a bunch of other fruits and vegetables in order to make them last. Just be mindful about blanching your produce in hot water, before you stick it in the below-freezing temperature of your freezer. This is an important step to neutralize bacteria and thus, delay decay.

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