Are my strawberries ok to eat and what can I do with them?

Question

I froze whole strawberries I bought fresh from the market and when I pulled some out to use the last time the skins of the strawberries were rubbery and looked gross. Is this normal ?
Because I didn't wash em first is it ok to wash after they de thaw? thanks

Answer 1

It's definately okay to eat/wash them. They're a bit freezer burnt, it sounds like, but that's alright. They're going to be a little more sweet than you're used to, so you can try putting them IN something, like muffins or even a fruit salad.

Answer 2

What you could do is make a coulee (Sorry, not correct spelling).
Put the strawberries in a pot, add a teaspoon of sugar and half a cup of water, and heat until sugar has dissolved.

Crush the strawberries in the pot (using the back of a spoon is a good way to do this), and then bring the whole mixture to the boil. You then need to simmer it until the liquid goes quite syrupy.

Now get a scoop of your favourite icecream, and pour that sauce all over it.!

Answer 3

Next time slice them, pour a tiny bit of sugar on them, stir. Wait half and hour, sugar will draw out the moisture. Then freeze. A fresh frozen strawberry is fine to eat but looks bad. It is good for smoothies but not to eat like we do fresh out of the garden.

Answer 4

the strawberries are still ok to eat...you can use them for ice cream,
and smoothies. if u were planning to make a cake, you should stick with fresh not frozen. and it is still ok to eat them after freezing but they won't taste as good as fresh strawberries...just try one... if you dont feel like they taste right, use them for sumthing else

Answer 5

you dont want to wash them first,just freeze them and yes wash them after they thaw.if you wash them first this is a good way to use them ,you can add sugar to the stawberrys put them in the frig before you put them in the freezer.it makes a great topping for ice cream.

Answer 6

you may definatly eat those that arent moldy. As for the moldy ones, if more effective than a quarter is moldy, i wouldnt sugest ingesting it. If it purely has a touch, take off the mold.

Answer 7

strawberries are just one thing you shouldnt freeze


The strawberry (Fragaria) is a genus of plants in the family Rosaceae, and the fruit of these plants. There are more than 20 named species and many hybrids and cultivars. The most common strawberries grown commercially are cultivars of the Garden strawberry, Fragaria × ananassa. Strawberries are a valuable source of vitamin C. See Garden Strawberry for information about the fruit as a food.

Contents [hide]
1 Morphology
2 Classification
3 Pests
4 Etymology
5 History
6 See also
7 References and external links



[edit] Morphology

Closeup of the surface of a strawberry
Strawberry flowers and developing fruitThe strawberry is an accessory fruit; that is, the fleshy part is derived not from the ovaries (which are the "seeds", actually achenes) but from the peg at the bottom of the hypanthium that held the ovaries. So from a technical standpoint, the seeds are the actual fruits of the plant, and the flesh of the strawberry is modified receptacle tissue. It is greenish-white as it develops and in most species turns red when ripe.

The rosette growth of the plants are a well-known characteristic. Most species send out long slender runners that produce a new bud and roots at the extremity, allowing the plant to spread vegetatively. The leaves typically have three leaflets, but the number of leaflets may be five or one.

While the flower has the typical rosaceous structure, the fruit is very peculiar, but it may be understood by the contrast it presents with the rose hip of the rose. In a rose the top of the flower-stalk expands as it grows into a vase-shaped cavity, the hip, within which are concealed the true fruits or seed-vessels. In the rose the extremity of the floral axis is concave and bears the carpels in its interior. In the strawberry, the receptacle (floral axis), instead of being concave, swells out into a fleshy, dome-shaped or flattened mass in which the achenes or true fruits, commonly called pips or seeds, are more or less embedded but never wholly concealed. A ripe strawberry in fact may be aptly compared to the fruit of a rose turned inside out.


[edit] Classification

Harvested strawberriesThere are more than 20 different Fragaria species worldwide. Key to the classification of strawberry species is recognizing that they vary in the number of chromosomes. There are seven basic types of chromosomes that they all have in common. However, they exhibit different polyploidy. Some species are diploid, having two sets of the seven chromosomes (14 chromosomes total). Others are tetraploid (four sets, 28 chromosomes total), hexaploid (six sets, 42 chromosomes total), octoploid (eight sets, 56 chromosomes total), or decaploid (ten sets, 70 chromosomes total).

As a rough rule (with exceptions), strawberry species with more chromosomes tend to be more robust and produce larger plants with larger berries (Darrow).

Diploid species

Woodland Strawberry, Fragaria vescaFragaria daltoniana
Fragaria iinumae
Fragaria nilgerrensis
Fragaria nipponica
Fragaria nubicola
Fragaria vesca (Woodland Strawberry)
Fragaria viridis
Fragaria yezoensis

Strawberry farms generally add hives of honeybees to improve pollinationTetraploid species
Fragaria moupinensis
Fragaria orientalis

A large strawberry.Hexaploid species
Fragaria moschata (Musk Strawberry)
Octoploid species and hybrids
Fragaria x ananassa (Garden Strawberry)
Fragaria chiloensis (Beach Strawberry)
Fragaria iturupensis (Iturup Strawberry)
Fragaria virginiana (Virginia Strawberry)
Decaploid species and hybrids
Fragaria × Potentilla hybrids
Fragaria × vescana
Numerous other species have been proposed. Some are now recognized as subspecies of one of the above species (see GRIN taxonomy database).

The Mock Strawberry and Barren Strawberry, which both bear resemblance to Fragaria, are closely related species in the genus Potentilla. The Strawberry tree is an unrelated species.


[edit] Pests
A number of species of Lepidoptera feed on strawberry plants; for details see this list.


[edit] Etymology

The traditional North European way of gathering strawberries

A wild strawberry plant, showing characteristic shape
The name is derived from Old English strēawberiġe which is a compound of streaw meaning "straw" and berige meaning "berry". The reason for this is unclear. It may derive from the strawlike appearance of the runners, or from an obsolete denotation of straw, meaning "chaff", referring to the scattered appearance of the achenes.

Interestingly, in other Germanic countries there is a tradition of collecting wild strawberries by threading them on straws. In those countries people find straw-berry to be an easy word to learn considering their association with straws.

There is an alternative theory that the name derives from the Anglo-Saxon verb for "strew" (meaning to spread around) which was streabergen (Strea means "strew" and Bergen means "berry" or "fruit") and thence to streberie, straiberie, strauberie, straubery, strauberry, and finally, "strawberry", the word which we use today. The name might have come from the fact that the fruit and various runners appear "strewn" along the ground.

Popular etymology has it that it comes from gardeners' practice of mulching strawberries with straw to protect the fruits from rot (a pseudoetymology that can be found in non-linguistic sources such as the Old Farmer's Almanac 2005). However, there is no evidence that the Anglo-Saxons ever grew strawberries, and even less that they knew of this practice.


[edit] History
Fragaria comes from "fragans", odorous, allusion to the perfumed flesh of the fruit. Madam Tallien, a great figure of french Revolution, who was nicknamed Our Lady of Thermidor thanks to her beauty, used to take baths full of strawberries to keep the full radiance of her skin. Fontenelle, centenarian writer and gourmet of the 18th century, considered his long life was due to the strawberries he used to eat.


[edit] See also
Garden Strawberry

[edit] References and external links
Darrow, George M. The Strawberry: History, Breeding and Physiology. New York. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966. Available online.
List of Fragaria resources, USDA
GRIN Fragaria Taxonomy Database Listing of Fragaria species, also from a USDA website
Medicinal uses of strawberries in Armenia
Fragaria chiloensis pictures from Chilebosque
A wikimanual of Gardening: Strawberry
Strawberry pest management guidelines
Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
StrawberryRetrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawberry"

Answer 8

umm i belive so?

but why did you freeze starberries?
they wont taste as fresh for sure..