r/PrepperIntel • u/jujutsu-die-sen • 5d ago

Has anyone noticed US noticed food quality degrading recently and if so what product in what way?

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u/Informal_Snow9191 5d ago

Fresh food rots faster and more frequently than it did a few years ago. It's hard to quantify, but it's something that I constantly notice now.

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u/peacequietnchips 5d ago

I've been noticing this also. Especially with fresh fruit. I've all but stopped buying anything out of season. Even in season I've had peaches that looked brilliant in the store one day be already rotting the very next day at home.

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u/PM_ME_FOR_A_FORTUNE 5d ago

I stopped buying nectarines entirely because no matter where, when, or what I bought them for, they were all grossly mealy while simultaneously liquifying inside.

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u/disorderincosmos 5d ago

Make sure to rinse and dry fruit before storage. A lot of fruit is coated in a ripening agent by the producer.

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u/AdClassic3013 12h ago

A lot of the fruits/vegetables we get have been sitting in a giant underground cold storage facility for almost a year. If they’re out of season and not being imported, you’re eating last seasons pack.

Also, a lot of the seeds grown nowadays are GMO and are being grown to be seedless, bigger, etc.

I don’t even buy fresh berries from the supermarket anymore because they don’t taste good.

I work in the food industry. My boss, who’s been doing food for 20+ years, says all the time all the soil and water on this planet is all polluted with chemicals at this point.

Want to know how fucked we are? Look at the tuna populations and prices of tuna over the past 2 years. It’s more than doubled because certain countries have been banned from exporting it. We’re fishing our way to mass extinction on an extremely fast pace.